In 1918, a homing pigeon saved over 190 American soldiers by delivering a message to nearby support despite having been shot through the breast, blinded in one eye, covered in blood, and with a leg hanging on by just a tendon.
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Rex the German Shepherd was a rescue dog with a bad temper. He refused to be fed by humans and would attack strangers, but he’s a changed dog after falling in love with Geraldine the goose!
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A newborn Chinese water deer is so small, it can (almost) be held in the palm of a hand.
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A dog's naked behind leaves absolutely no bacteria when pressed against carpet.
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Travis was a chimpanzee who socialized with humans since birth. He could log onto a computer to look at pictures, watch TV using a remote control, brush his teeth, feed hay to his owner's horses, water plants, and learned the schedule of passing ice cream trucks.
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Sifrhippus was a species of horse about the size of an average duck and roamed North America 56 million years ago.
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The ancestor of all domestic cats is the African Wild Cat which still exists today.
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