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The History Hour: When Animals Make History

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When Animals Made History

23/09/2017 GMT

When Animals Make History

BBC World Service - The History Hour, When Animals Make History

From a guide dog on 9/11 to Australia's rabbit plague - five stories from animal history.

Five remarkable stories of animals in recent history - from the guide dog who led her owner out of the World Trade Center on 9/11 to a ferocious shark attack to the locust swarm that flew more than 5000 miles across the Atlantic ocean.

Photo: a Great White Shark - Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

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