Shark corneas are used in eye transplants and shark bone marrow can be used to graft human bones.
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Camels and llamas can cross breed. The offspring is called a ‘Cama’.
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A giraffe's kick is so powerful that it can decapitate a lion.
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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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Cows as they are today never existed in the wild and were domesticated from aurochs some 10,500 years ago.
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In 2011, a male tiger in India adopted a litter of orphaned cubs, taking on the role of ‘mother’. Wildlife officials say such behavior had never been observed before.
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