The elephant shrew’s closest relative isn’t a shrew — it’s actually an elephant
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Sandy, an African Penguin, has been in 'love' with her keeper at the Nuremburg zoo since 1996.
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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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Jaguars frequently get high by eating hallucinogenic roots, which also increases their senses for hunting.
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The two oldest cats on record lived to 38 and 34 years old, both were owned by the same owner and lived off a diet of bacon, eggs, broccoli and coffee.
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Early American humans hunted car-size armadillos and used their shells for houses.
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