Pet dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand human gesture.
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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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Lurch, a Watusi bull, had the largest horns in the world.
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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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Cats lose almost as much fluid in the saliva while grooming themselves as they do through urination!
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