Jonathan the Tortoise
He was already 50 years old when Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. He is still alive today.
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Freya the Cheetah
An 11-month-old cheetah cub at the Smithsonian had a spine quietly twisting out of shape. Her keepers caught it before it stole her future.
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The Cockatoos of Sydney
They figured out how to turn on the drinking fountains. Then they taught each other.
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Grizzly 399
For nearly 30 years, the most famous bear in the world walked the same valley and raised cub after cub after cub.
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The Lions of Tsavo
In 1898, two lions in Kenya halted the construction of a railroad bridge and became the most studied wild animals in history.
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Flaco the Owl
A Eurasian eagle-owl spent 13 years in a zoo enclosure, then spent his last year proving everyone wrong.
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Christian the Lion
Two young men bought a lion cub at a London department store. A year after releasing him into the wild, they went back. He remembered.
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Jack the Baboon
In the 1880s, a baboon named Jack ran the signal levers at a South African railway junction. He never made a single error.
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