Strange Animals Scientists Studied

Horses that did math, parrots that asked what color they were, water bears in open space.

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• The Twelve Leeches That Were Supposed to Ring a Bell When a Storm Was Coming
• The Two Tortoises That Flew Around the Moon Before Any Human Did
• The Water Bears That Survived Naked in Open Space
• The Stork That Came Home With an African Spear Through Its Neck
• The Teenager Who Sent Two Spiders to Spin Webs in Space
• The Parrot That Asked What Color Am I
• The Platypus Pelt a Museum Keeper Cut Open With Scissors, Hunting for the Stitches
• The Rats That Learned to Drive Tiny Cars — and Revved the Engine Before the Ride
• The Naked Mole-Rat: The Cold-Blooded Mammal That Lives Like an Ant and Won't Age on Schedule
• The Horses That Battled an Army of Electric Eels
• The Jellyfish That Can Reverse Its Own Aging
• The Kingfisher That Redesigned the Bullet Train
• The Cat Who Co-Authored a Physics Paper Because His Owner Used the Word 'We'
• The Chicken That Lived 18 Months After Losing His Head
• The Battlefield Maggots That Became a Prescription Medical Device
• The Beetle That Explodes Inside a Predator's Stomach — and Walks Away
• The Blind Bats That Flew Perfectly in the Dark
• The Baby-Blue Blood of the Horseshoe Crab That Keeps Every Vaccine Safe
• Laika: The Moscow Stray Who Orbited Earth, and the Truth Hidden for 45 Years
• The 180,000 Mummified Cats That Were Sold by the Ton as Fertilizer
• The 7,500 Pounds of Hagfish That Slimed Five Cars and Closed a Highway
• The 8,510 Cows Scientists Counted on Google Earth to See If They Point North
• Clever Hans: The Horse That Could 'Do Math'

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