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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Rattlesnake mating sessions have been known to last more than 22 hours.
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The most expensive dog in the world is the Tibetan Mastiff; worth $1.5 million.
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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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It has been calculated that a single breath from a mature blue whale can inflate up to 2,000 balloons.
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Leonardo Da Vinci loved animals so much that he used to buy caged animals at the market just to set them free.
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During World War 1, starving wolves amassed in such great numbers that Germans and Russians had a temporary cease fire to fight off the wolf attacks.
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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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