Honeypot ants are a unique insect that use their own bodies as living storage pots of honey.
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Squirrels will sometimes adopt orphaned baby squirrels that they’re related to.
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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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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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Cats are one of the only animals to domesticate themselves and approach humans on their own terms.
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Some lizards, in which the tail is a major storage organ for accumulating reserves, will return to a dropped tail after the threat has passed, and will eat it to recover part of the sacrificed supplies.
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Denmark has twice as many pigs as there are people.
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