Squirrels will sometimes adopt orphaned baby squirrels that they’re related to.
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Baks the blind boxer has a seeing eye goose named Buttons; a four-year-old goose who leads the pup around everywhere either by hanging onto him with her neck, or by honking to tell him which way to go.
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Early American humans hunted car-size armadillos and used their shells for houses.
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Denmark has twice as many pigs as there are people.
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Whales and dolphins can't taste anything other than salt.
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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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