In 1918, a homing pigeon saved over 190 American soldiers by delivering a message to nearby support despite having been shot through the breast, blinded in one eye, covered in blood, and with a leg hanging on by just a tendon.
22
A zoo in China gave a gay penguin couple the opportunity to raise a chick.
11
When a male gentoo penguin "falls in love" with a female penguin, he searches the entire beach to find the perfect pebble to present to her.
25
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.
8
A giraffe's kick is so powerful that it can decapitate a lion.
216
When Washoe, the first chimp to use sign language, was told that her caretaker's baby had died, she signed "CRY."
20