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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When cats are happy, they may squeeze their eyes shut.
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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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There is a sea snail that wears a suit of iron plated armor. It is the only known animal to use iron sulphide as skeletal material.
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Urechis unicinctus is a species of marine spoon worm that is widely referred to as the ‘penis fish’.
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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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Honeypot ants are a unique insect that use their own bodies as living storage pots of honey.
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