A study has shown that a male zebra finch is less likely to court a female zebra finch if he did not form any social friendships with female zebra finches when younger.

France, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Greece, and Australia have always been in the modern Olympics since it began in 1896.

In her later years, Florence Nightingale kept a pet owl in her pocket.

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