A white Coarneau pigeon hatched blind at a Sumter South Carolina hatchery could only fly backwards!
A Griffen Vulture at the Vienna Menagerie in Austria lived to the age of 118 years old!
A love bird that would shred paper and make itself an artificial tail by stuffing the paper into its rear feathers was owned by George Conklin of Torrance Califorina.
A hen owned by Mrs. Edna Hullihen of Baltimore, Md, hatched an egg shaped like a bowling pin.
Frank Corradin, an Italian trainer who died in 1899, staged circus exhibitions throughout Europe in which a horse actually balanced high above the arena on a tight rope. That horse walked a tightrope!!
"Lady Premier", a racing homing pigeon hatched in Chicago, in 1939, had 4 legs!!!
An Artic Tern tagged on July 5, 1955 in Murmansk, Russia, was recaptured on May 15, 1956, in Freemantle, Australia, after a flight of 14,000 miles.
2-face kitten siamese kitten were born with 2 noses, 2 mouths and 4 eyes.
Anvar-ud-din(1642-1749),Nabob of Arcot, India LED HIS TROOPS INTO BATTLE ON AN ELEPHANT AT THE AGE OF 107! He was slain in that battle when he was hit by 2 bullets (July 23, 1749).
THE WAR THAT WAS WON BY A HERD OF GOATS! The women of Gruyere, Switzerland, finding their town besieged by a Bernese army while all their men were engaged in battle elsewhere, affixed blazing torches to the horns of a herd of goats and drove them down the mountainside toward the attacking troops. Thus, the Bernese fled-CONVINCED THEY WERE BEING PURSUED BY DEMONS (1499)
A swallow flying low over the river Lea, in England, was caught in July, 1824 by a pike (a type of fish).
"Sandy" a collie has chewed 6 packs of gum every day for 5 years.
A flock of ducks lives in a "Penthouse" atop the Sheraton-Peabody Hotel, in Memphis, Tenn., and each day they take an outing and swim by using an elevator and parading through the main lobby.
A calf was born with the outline of a heart on its forehead on Valentine's day!!!
A spaniel (a type of dog) remained in the river Auline for 6 days and nights until its barking led neighbors to the body of its master who had been murdered and thrown into the river.
A cat trailing a group of alpinists form the hotel Belvedere, located at an altitude of 10,820 feet on the Matterhorn CLIMBED TO THE SUMMIT-AT A HEIGHT OF 14,780 FEET (1950).