Meysi is one of the world's smallest dogs, measuring in at just 7cm tall, 12cm long, and weighing a meagre 250 grams (only slightly heavier than a hamster!)
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Leonardo Da Vinci loved animals so much that he used to buy caged animals at the market just to set them free.
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Some older/less efficient worker termites will develop 'backpacks' of toxic chemicals that explode when the termite is threatened. They are essentially used as suicide bombers when the colony is being attacked.
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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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Vanilla flavoring is sometimes made with an ingredient from beaver pee.
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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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Cats recognise the voice of their owner, but never evolved to care.
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