Nervous dogs wag their tails to the left, and happy dogs to the right (from the dog’s point of view) – and fellow canines pick up on this lop-sided tail language.
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A dork is a whale's penis.
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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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Squirrels forget where they hide about half of their nuts.
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Pet dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand human gesture.
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Alligator snapping turtles can live for over 150 years. Scientists know this because some of the turtles had musket balls in their stomachs.
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Jaguars frequently get high by eating hallucinogenic roots, which also increases their senses for hunting.
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The male seahorse carries babies and 'gives birth' to them instead of the female.
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