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Cultural, Scientific, and Symbolic Animals Who Shaped History
In the summer fog of 1958, a wild sea lion named Etta dove into a riptide twice to push two drowning children back toward safety.
Bucephalus carried Alexander through rain, arrows, and elephants until the warhorse finally gave everything he had left.
A Korean War racehorse turned battlefield legend, Reckless made 51 trips under fire in a single day and became a Marine through sheer will and endurance.
The fearless French Malinois who led the charge in Saint-Denis and gave his life hunting terrorists in 2015.
Wisdom, a 70-year-old albatross, has spent a lifetime outlasting wars, storms, and entire generations of scientists.
Two sled dogs, Togo and Balto, pushed through the deadliest winter Alaska could throw at them to carry a town’s last hope for survival.
Hachikō became Tokyo’s quiet heartbeat of devotion, waiting nearly a decade at Shibuya Station for a master who never returned.
An ape who learned to talk back, Kanzi shattered the line between human and animal by mastering symbols, jokes, and even fire.