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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A lion in the wild usually makes no more than twenty kills a year.
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It has been scientifically proven that stroking a cat can lower one's blood pressure!
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Squirrels will sometimes adopt orphaned baby squirrels that they’re related to.
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Mahatma Gandhi used to travel with his goat so that he could have fresh milk.
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15% of snails survive digestion by birds and are found alive in their droppings, potentially leading to the spread of snail populations.
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Alligator snapping turtles can live for over 150 years. Scientists know this because some of the turtles had musket balls in their stomachs.
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