Nervous dogs wag their tails to the left, and happy dogs to the right (from the dog’s point of view) – and fellow canines pick up on this lop-sided tail language.
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Whales and dolphins can't taste anything other than salt.
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A hippo sleeping underwater automatically rises to the surface every ~4 minutes and breathes without waking.
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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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There is a sea snail that wears a suit of iron plated armor. It is the only known animal to use iron sulphide as skeletal material.
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The oldest recorded elephant lived for 82 years.
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