The mayor of the Alaskan town, Talkeetna, is called Stubbs and has been mayor of the town since July 1997. Stubbs is a cat.

Female and male black bears cannot tolerate being around each other except when they breed.

The oldest bird on record was Cocky, a cockatoo, who died in the London Zoo at the age of 82.

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