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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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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A group of kittens is called a "kindle".
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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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Cows as they are today never existed in the wild and were domesticated from aurochs some 10,500 years ago.
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The oldest known animal in the world was 'Ming' the 405 year old clam, discovered in 2007.
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