Pet dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand human gesture.
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Cats lose almost as much fluid in the saliva while grooming themselves as they do through urination!
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Tigers, leopards, and jaguars love "Calvin Klein's Obsession for Men". The scent is used to attract animals to cameras in the wilderness, and was even a turn on for one pair of Jaguars who were subject to it.
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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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A hippo sleeping underwater automatically rises to the surface every ~4 minutes and breathes without waking.
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Sheep, goats, octopuses, and toads have rectangular pupils.
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Parrot parents "name" their children with a signature call.
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