Vampire bats adopt orphans, and are one of the few mammals known to risk their own lives to share food with less fortunate roost-mates.
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Mahatma Gandhi used to travel with his goat so that he could have fresh milk.
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Shark corneas are used in eye transplants and shark bone marrow can be used to graft human bones.
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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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Early American humans hunted car-size armadillos and used their shells for houses.
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The station master and operating officer at the Kishi Station, Japan, is a cat!
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