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When Bucephalus died,
Alexander founded
the city of Bucephala
in his honor.

War horse
No one could get control of a wild horse
given to Philip II, king of Greece, in 343 BCE. Philip’s
son, Alexander the Great, saw that the animal was
scared of its own shadow, and tamed him by taking
the bridle and turning the horse’s head toward the sun.
Alexander named him BUCEPHALUS, and the horse
carried its master to victory in many battles.

Dog in orbit

In November 1957, the Soviet Union
(now Russia) launched a spaceship
called Sputnik 2 carrying a small dog
named LAIKA. She was not the first
animal in space, but she was the
first to orbit the Earth. She earned
a place in history, but many people
protested because it was not possible
to bring her safely back home again.

Fruit flies were the first animals sent into space.

Double Dolly
A very special lamb was born in July 1996.
Christened Dolly, she was a “CLONE”—an
identical copy of another sheep. To make
her, scientists inserted the DNA of a cell
taken from one ewe into the egg cell of
another. They implanted the developing
egg into a “foster mother” sheep, who
carried and gave birth to Dolly naturally.

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