A lion in the wild usually makes no more than twenty kills a year.
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In 2005, in Africa, it was reported that three lions rescued a 12-year-old girl from kidnappers and guarded her for half a day until help came.
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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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Pet dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand human gesture.
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In 1949, an official boxing match between a bear and a man was held. The bear won.
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Mahatma Gandhi used to travel with his goat so that he could have fresh milk.
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By putting a frog in a bucket of milk, scientists following up on an ancient Russian way of keeping milk from going sour have identified a wealth of new antibiotic substances.
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