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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Camels and llamas can cross breed. The offspring is called a ‘Cama’.
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A cow produces around 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
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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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The oldest creature ever found was Ming the clam at an admirable 507 years old.
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