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 tortoise named Adwaita lived to 255 years old. To put it into perspective, he was born before the United States of America existed and his death was announced on CNN (1750-2006).
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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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The ancestor of all domestic cats is the African Wild Cat which still exists today.
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The largest earthworm on record was found in South Africa and measured 22 feet.
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Christmas Island has bridges for crabs to stop them getting run over during the mass migration.
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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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