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| x Seabiscuit |
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Horse | Male | May 23, 1933 |
Seabiscuit (May 23, 1933—May 17, 1947) was a champion thoroughbred racehorse in the United States. From an inauspicious start, Seabiscuit became an unlikely champion and a symbol of hope to many US citizens during the Great Depression. Seabiscuit...
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| x Buddy |
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Dog | Male | 1997 |
Buddy "Budweiser" (September 1997 – January 2, 2002), a male chocolate-colored Labrador Retriever, was one of two pets owned by Bill Clinton while he was President of the United States. The Clintons' other pet was a cat named Socks.
Clinton acquired...
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| x A.P. Indy | Horse | Male | 1989 |
A.P. Indy (born 1989) is a champion stallion Thoroughbred racehorse bred in Kentucky, USA, by William Farish III and William Kilroy. He is known for his ancestry, his own record, and his successful progeny. He was sired by Triple Crown winner...
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| x Ack Ack | Horse | Male | 1966 |
Ack Ack (1966-1990) was an American Thoroughbred Hall of Fame racehorse. He raced with success at age two to four, scoring wins in the important 1969 Withers Stakes and Arlington Classic. In 1971 at age five, Ack Ack blossomed into the year's most...
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| x Socks |
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Cat | Male | Mar 1989 |
Socks (c. March 1989 – February 20, 2009) was the pet cat of U.S. President Bill Clinton's family during his presidency. He then resided with former Clinton secretary Betty Currie and her husband.
Socks was adopted by the Clintons in 1991 after he...
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| x Babu | Red Panda | Male |
Babu is a red panda who disappeared from a nature centre in Moseley, Birmingham in November 2005 and spent four days "on the loose" before being discovered. Nature centre staff believe he was blown out of a tree and found himself outside his...
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| x Bai Yun |
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Giant Panda | Female | Sep 7, 1991 |
Bai Yun (simplified Chinese: 白云; traditional Chinese: 白雲; meaning: "White Cloud") (born 1991-09-07) is a female giant panda currently at the San Diego Zoo. Bai Yun was the first successful birth of a giant panda at the Wolong Giant Panda Research...
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| x Gao Gao |
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Giant Panda | Male | 1992 |
Gao Gao (Chinese: 高高; literally "Tall Tall") is a male giant panda currently at the San Diego Zoo. To date, he is the sire to four giant pandas in captivity.
Gao Gao was born in the wild in China, around 1992, and was taken to the Fengtongzhai...
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| x Lun Lun | Giant Panda | Female | Aug 25, 1997 |
Lun Lun (Chinese 伦伦) is a female giant panda at Zoo Atlanta in Atlanta, Georgia. The panda, now 235 pounds (107 kg), was born at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in China on August 25, 1997. Her original name, Hua Hua, was changed...
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| x Mei Lan |
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Giant Panda | Female | Sep 6, 2006 |
Mei Lan, (simplified Chinese: 美兰; traditional Chinese: 美蘭; intended meaning: "Atlanta Beauty"), is a female giant panda. She was born at Zoo Atlanta in Atlanta, Georgia on September 6, 2006, after a record 35-hour labor . She is the daughter of Lun...
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| x Mei Sheng |
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Giant Panda | Male | Aug 19, 2003 |
Mei Sheng (b. August 19, 2003) (Chinese: 美生, meaning: "Beautiful Life" or "Born in the USA") is a male giant panda born at the San Diego Zoo. He is the second panda to be born at the zoo and is the first offspring of Bai Yun and Gao Gao. He is the...
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| x Mei Xiang |
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Giant Panda | Female | Jul 22, 1998 |
Mei Xiang (Chinese 美香 [mèiɕjɑ́ŋ] "beautiful fragrance") is a female Giant Panda who lives at the Smithsonian National Zoological Park in Washington, D.C. Mei Xiang gave birth to male cub Tai Shan on July 9, 2005; Tai Shan's father is Tian Tian.
Mei...
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| x Su Lin |
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Giant Panda | Female | Aug 2, 2005 |
Su Lin (simplified Chinese: 苏琳) is a female giant panda born at the San Diego Zoo on August 2, 2005. Her name — one of five options in an online poll — means "a little bit of something very cute" in Chinese.
Su Lin is the third cub born to her...
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| x Su-Lin |
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Giant Panda | Male | 1936 |
Su-Lin (Chinese: 蘇琳; pinyin: Sūlín) was the name given to the giant panda cub captured in 1936 and brought to America by the explorer Ruth Harkness. Harkness, in her 1938 book [The Baby Giant Panda], gives clues as to the location of the original...
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| x Tai Shan |
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Giant Panda | Male | Jul 9, 2005 3:41am |
Tai Shan (Chinese: 泰山; pinyin: Tài Shān, pronounced [tʰâiʂán]), also known as Butterstick) is a giant panda born at the Smithsonian National Zoological Park (National Zoo) in Washington, D.C on July 9, 2005 at 3:41 AM. He is the first panda cub born...
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| x Tian Tian |
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Giant Panda | Male | Aug 27, 1997 |
Tian Tian (Chinese 添添 "More and More") is a 275-pound male giant panda at the Smithsonian National Zoological Park in Washington, D.C. The panda was born on August 27, 1997, at the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda at the...
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| x Xiang Xiang | Giant Panda | Male | Aug 25, 2001 |
Xiang Xiang (August 25, 2001 – February 19, 2007) was the first giant panda to be released into the wild after being bred and raised in captivity. Born at the Wolong Giant Panda Research Center in the Sichuan Province, Xiang Xiang endured a three...
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| x Hua Mei |
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Giant Panda | Female | Aug 21, 1999 |
Hua Mei (simplified Chinese: 华美; traditional Chinese: 華美; intended meaning: "China/USA") (born August 21, 1999), is a female giant panda. She is the first giant panda cub to survive to adulthood in the United States. She was born to Bai Yun (mother)...
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| x Yang Yang |
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Giant Panda | Male |
Yang Yang (panda) may refer to:
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| x Zhen Zhen | Giant Panda | Female | Aug 3, 2007 | ||
| x Seattle Slew |
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Horse | Male |
Seattle Slew (February 15, 1974 – May 7, 2002) was an American thoroughbred race horse who won the United States Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing in 1977, the tenth of eleven horses to accomplish the feat. He remains the only horse to win the...
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| x Mick the Miller | Dog | Male | Jun 1926 |
Mick the Miller (June 1926 – 1939) is celebrated as the first great greyhound to race in England. Despite a short three year racing career, his achievements were highly publicised and greatly boosted the popularity of the sport. Mick the Miller's...
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| x Potoooooooo |
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Male | 1773 |
Potoooooooo or Pot-8-Os (foaled in 1773) was a famous 18th century Thoroughbred racehorse who defeated some of the greatest racehorses and later became an influential sire.
Pot-8-Os was a chestnut colt bred by Willoughby Bertie, 4th Earl of Abingdon...
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| x Yaya |
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Dog | Female | 1998 | |
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| x Amira Alvarez |
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Human | Female |
Amira Alvarez is an Alexander Technique teacher based in Berkeley, CA who specializes in working with people in pain and sports enthusiasts wanting to raise their performance.
She comes to the Alexander Technique from a background in project... |
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| x Pal |
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Dog | Male | Jun 8, 1940 |
Pal (June 4, 1940 – 1958) was a male Rough Collie and the first in a line of such dogs to portray the fictional female collie Lassie in film and television. Pal was born in California in 1940 and eventually brought to the notice of Rudd Weatherwax,...
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| x Hogzilla |
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Boar | Male |
Hogzilla is the name given to a wild hog hybrid that was shot and killed in Alapaha, Georgia, United States, on June 17, 2004 by Chris Griffin on Ken Holyoak's fish farm and hunting reserve. It was alleged to be 12 feet (3.7 m) long and weighed over...
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| x Knut |
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Polar Bear | Male | Dec 5, 2006 |
Knut (German pronunciation: [ˈknuːt] ( listen)) (born 5 December 2006) is a polar bear who was born in captivity at the Zoologischer Garten Berlin. Rejected by his mother at birth, he was subsequently raised by zookeepers. He was the first polar...
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| x Foo Thomas |
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| x Rain Lover | Male |
Rain Lover (1964-1989) was a champion Australian Thoroughbred racehorse. He was one of the very few horses to win the Melbourne Cup more than once. Rain Lover was sired by the good racehorse, Latin Lover (GB) (a son of the unbeaten Ribot) his dam...
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| x Moose |
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Jack Russell Terrier | Male | Dec 24, 1990 |
Moose (December 24, 1990 – June 22, 2006) was a veteran canine actor. He was a Jack Russell Terrier and is most famous for his portrayal of Eddie Crane on the television sitcom Frasier.
Moose was born on Christmas Eve, 1990 in Florida, the youngest...
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| x Wiarton Willie | Male |
Wiarton Willie is a famous Canadian groundhog who lives in the community of Wiarton in Bruce County, Ontario. Every February 2, on Groundhog Day, Willie takes part in the local Wiarton Willie Festival. His role is to predict whether there will be an...
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| x Cindy | Male |
Cinderella (c.1975￢ﾀﾓJune 18, 2006), though more commonly just called Cindy, was a male bottle-nosed dolphin that made international headlines for an unofficial marriage to a woman.
Cindy was taken in 1990 from the Black Sea to the Dolphin Reef...
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| x Adwaita | Aldabra Giant Tortoise | Male |
Adwaita (meaning "one and only" in Sanskrit) (c. 1750 – 23 March 2006) was the name of a male Aldabra Giant Tortoise in the Alipore Zoological Gardens of Kolkata, India. He was the oldest living animal in Kolkata.
"Historical records show he was a...
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| x Bear JJ1 | 2004 |
Bear JJ1 (2004 – 26 June 2006) was a brown bear whose travels and exploits in Austria and Germany in the first half of 2006 drew international attention. JJ1, also known as Bruno in the German press (some newspapers also gave the bear different...
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| x Lost in the Fog |
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Horse | Male |
Lost in the Fog (February 4, 2002 - September 17, 2006) was an American thoroughbred race horse. Bred by Susan Seper and born in Florida, the Fog's sire was Lost Soldier, (sire so far of 10 stakes winners), a son of Danzig (himself the son of...
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| x Blackie the Horse |
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Horse | Male |
Blackie was a swaybacked horse who, for 28 years, was a well known fixture in Tiburon, CA. He not only stood in the same spot in a pasture at the corner of Tiburon Boulevard and Trestle Glen Road, rarely moving, day after day, but he faced in the...
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| x Secretariat |
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Horse | Male |
Secretariat (March 30, 1970 – October 4, 1989) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse, who in 1973 became the first U.S. Triple Crown champion in twenty-five years, setting new race records in two of the three events in the Series – the Kentucky...
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| x Man O' War |
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Horse | Male |
Man o' War, (March 29, 1917 Nursery Stud farm, Lexington, Kentucky - November 1, 1947, Faraway Farm) is considered one of the greatest thoroughbred racehorses of all time. During his career just after World War I, he won 20 of 21 races and $249,465...
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| x Billy |
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Hippopotamus | Male | 1920 |
Billy, or William Johnson Hippopotamus, (1920s – October 11, 1955) was a Pygmy Hippopotamus given as a pet to U.S. President Calvin Coolidge. Captured in Liberia, he was given to Coolidge by Harvey Firestone in 1927. Billy spent most of his life in...
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| x N'kisi | African Grey Parrot | Male |
N'kisi is an African Grey Parrot who exhibits apparently advanced English usage skills and other abilities.
According to news reports and websites, as of January 2004, N'kisi had a vocabulary of about 950 words and used them in context, frequently...
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| x Eight Belles |
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Female | Feb 23, 2005 |
Eight Belles (February 23, 2005 – May 3, 2008) was a thoroughbred racehorse owned by Rick Porter's Fox Hill Farms. She finished second to winner Big Brown in the 134th running of the Kentucky Derby held at Churchill Downs, a race run by only thirty...
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| x Smudge | Cat | Female |
Smudge (died 2000) was a feline that became a minor celebrity in Glasgow.
Employed by the People's Palace museum in Glasgow Green to deal with a rodent problem in 1979, Smudge became a fixture of the museum, which sold Smudge merchandise including...
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| x Fred the Undercover Kitty |
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Cat | Male | May 2005 |
Fred the Undercover Kitty (May 2005 - August 10, 2006) was a domestic shorthaired cat who gained fame for his undercover work with the New York Police Department and the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office in the arrest of a suspect posing as a...
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| x Himmy | Cat | Male | 1976 |
Himmy is one of the largest cats who ever lived.
Owned by Thomas Vyse of Redlynch, Queensland, Australia, Himmy reportedly weighed 46 pounds 15.25 oz (21.3 kg), and died in 1986 at 10 years of age. He had a 15-inch (38 cm) neck, was 38 inches (97 cm...
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| x Hodge | Cat | Male |
Hodge was one of Samuel Johnson's cats, immortalized in a characteristically whimsical passage in James Boswell's Life of Johnson.
Although there is little known about Hodge, such as his life, his death, or any other information, what is known is...
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| x Humphrey |
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Cat | Male | 1988 |
Humphrey (c. 1988 – March 2006) was a cat employed as a mouser at 10 Downing Street from October 1989 to 13 November 1997. Arriving as a one-year old stray, he served under the premierships of Margaret Thatcher, John Major and Tony Blair, but...
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| x Lewis |
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Cat | Male | 2000 |
Lewis is the name of a cat from Fairfield, Connecticut who garnered mass media attention for being placed under house arrest in March 2006. At the time of his arrest Lewis was five years old, placing his birthdate between the years 2000 and 2001....
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| x Little Nicky | Cat | Male | Oct 17, 2004 |
Little Nicky (born October 17, 2004) is the first commercially-produced cat clone. He was produced from the DNA of a 17-year-old Maine Coon cat named Nicky who died in 2003. Little Nicky's owner, a north Texas woman named Julie (her last name was...
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| x Macavity | Cat | Male |
Macavity is the name given by several bus drivers from the West Midlands, United Kingdom to a white cat which, since January 2007, has been observed to regularly use the local bus service on its own.
The cat was nicknamed Macavity after the...
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| x Mrs. Chippy |
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Cat | Male |
Mrs. Chippy was a cat who accompanied Sir Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914–17, and - along with the sled dogs - was eventually shot after the expedition's ship, the Endurance, was destroyed when it became trapped in...
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| x Morris the Cat |
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Cat | Male |
Morris the Cat (voiced by John Erwin) is the advertising mascot for 9Lives brand cat food, appearing on its packaging and in many of its television commercials. A large red tabby tom, he is "the world's most finicky cat", and prefers only 9Lives...
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| x Orangey |
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Cat | Male |
Orangey, a red tabby cat, was a talented animal actor owned and trained by the well-known cinematic animal handler Frank Inn. Orangey (credited under various names) had a prolific career in film and television in the 1950s and early 1960s and was...
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| x Oscar | Cat | Male | 2005 |
Oscar (born 2005) is a therapy cat in a Rhode Island hospice who was featured in the New England Journal of Medicine for his purported ability to predict the impending death of terminally ill patients. Explanations for this ability include Oscar...
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| x Peter, the Lord's cat | Cat | Male | 1950 |
Peter, the Lord's cat (1950 – 5 November 1964), also known as The Marylebone mog, was a cat who lived at Lord's Cricket Ground in London from 1952 to 1964. He is the only animal to be given an obituary in the standard cricket reference book, Wisden...
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| x Scarlett the cat | Cat | Female | Jun 1995 |
Scarlett the cat was a former stray cat from Brooklyn, New York - probably born in summer 1995 - whose efforts to save her kittens from a fire, at serious harm to herself, attracted worldwide media attention and has been related in a number of non...
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| x Simon |
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Cat | Male | 1947 |
Simon (c. 1947 -28 November 1949) was the ship's cat who served on the Royal Navy sloop HMS Amethyst. In 1949, during the Yangtze Incident, he received the PDSA's Dickin Medal after surviving injuries from a cannon shell, by raising morale and...
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| x Trim |
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Cat | Male | 1797 |
Trim was a ship's cat that accompanied Matthew Flinders on his voyages to circumnavigate and map the coastline of Australia in 1801-03.
Trim was born in 1797, aboard HMS Reliance on a voyage from the Cape of Good Hope to Botany Bay. The kitten fell...
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| x Unsinkable Sam |
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Cat | Male |
"Unsinkable Sam" (also known as "Oscar") was the nickname given to a ship's cat who saw service in both the Kriegsmarine and Royal Navy during the Second World War, serving on board three vessels and surviving the sinking of all three.
The black and...
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