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The astonishing superpowers of nature’s most unloved animals. From their odd appendages to their unsavory hygiene, certain animals suffer an image problem.

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After being hunted to eradication in Washington and Oregon in the 1930s and 1940s, the gray wolf’s recovery in these states ...