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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Blue whale arteries are large enough for humans to swim through and their hearts are the size of cars.
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The Hercules beetle, despite weighing only 100 grams, can lift 8 kilograms, making it one of the proportionally strongest animals in the world.
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Two dogs were among the Titanic survivors.
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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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Macaques monkeys in Japan learned to steal purses and wallets, take out the coins, and use them to buy drinks and snacks from vending machines.
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The most expensive cow in the world was sold in 2009 for $1.2 million.
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