Some older/less efficient worker termites will develop 'backpacks' of toxic chemicals that explode when the termite is threatened. They are essentially used as suicide bombers when the colony is being attacked.
8
Mahatma Gandhi used to travel with his goat so that he could have fresh milk.
11
Dolphins have names for one another.
18
Ants tend to survive in a microwave because they find the coolest spot and wait!
17
The Hercules beetle, despite weighing only 100 grams, can lift 8 kilograms, making it one of the proportionally strongest animals in the world.
8
Sandy, an African Penguin, has been in 'love' with her keeper at the Nuremburg zoo since 1996.
34
Unsinkable Sam (nickname of a German ship's cat) who served on 3 warships, one German, two British, all sank in action. The cat survived each sinking, floating away on wooden planks to rescue.
19