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Soviet scientist Vladimir Demikhov shocked the world with his two-headed dog experiments
In 1977, the white-winged guan was rediscovered in Peru after a century
In 2004, a hippo and a tortoise became friends. Their story gained worldwide fame
In 1944, Bill Wynne adopted a Yorkie believed to be one of the first therapy dogs
In 1989, Wally Conron created the world's first labradoodle
Laika orbited Earth in 1957
In 1998, Keiko the Hollywood killer whale was released back into the wild
Pablo Escobar's pet hippos were found roaming Colombian waterways in 2007
The inspiring story of how a Labrador led her blind master out of the World Trade Center.
In 1936 socialite Ruth Harkness and her guide captured a panda cub and took it to the US
Gorilla expert Dian Fossey was murdered in her cabin in Rwanda on 26 December 1985
When Rodney Fox survived the jaws of a Great White Shark it inspired him to study them.
A showdown on the American/Mexican border on September 14th 1958.
How a Kenyan woman, Dame Daphne Sheldrick, first raised orphaned baby African elephants
Rabbits infested huge swathes of the Australian countryside in the 1940s and 1950s.
The story of two Australians who berfriended a lion in London, and freed him in Africa
The USA sent two monkeys into space and brought them back alive for the first time
In February 1991, the captive orca, Tilikum, drowned his trainer, Keltie Byrne in Canada.
Millions of African locusts invaded the Caribbean having flown 5,000 kilometres non-stop.
In December 1943, a British charity created gallantry medals for animals serving in war.
Memories of the bloody Antarctic industry which left whales on the brink of extinction.
The Bulgarian sanctuary that cares for bears once forced to dance.
How a bull's health led to a stand-off between monks and the Welsh government in 2007.
Two IRA bombs in London parks killed 11 military personnel and 7 horses on 20th July 1982
