Animals who made history

In 1978, British artist Eric Hill designed a book about a puppy for his two-year-old son

On 1 July 2015, Cecil, a popular lion, was shot in Zimbabwe by an American trophy hunter

In 2012, Lonesome George, the last tortoise of his species died

In 2004, a hippo and a tortoise became friends. Their story gained worldwide fame

Soviet scientist Vladimir Demikhov shocked the world with his two-headed dog experiments

In 1977, the white-winged guan was rediscovered in Peru after a century

In 1944, Bill Wynne adopted a Yorkie believed to be one of the first therapy dogs

In 1989, Wally Conron created the world's first labradoodle

Laika orbited Earth in 1957

In 1998, Keiko the Hollywood killer whale was released back into the wild

Pablo Escobar's pet hippos were found roaming Colombian waterways in 2007

The inspiring story of how a Labrador led her blind master out of the World Trade Center.

In 1936 socialite Ruth Harkness and her guide captured a panda cub and took it to the US

Gorilla expert Dian Fossey was murdered in her cabin in Rwanda on 26 December 1985

When Rodney Fox survived the jaws of a Great White Shark it inspired him to study them.

A showdown on the American/Mexican border on September 14th 1958.

How a Kenyan woman, Dame Daphne Sheldrick, first raised orphaned baby African elephants

Rabbits infested huge swathes of the Australian countryside in the 1940s and 1950s.

The story of two Australians who berfriended a lion in London, and freed him in Africa

The USA sent two monkeys into space and brought them back alive for the first time

In February 1991, the captive orca, Tilikum, drowned his trainer, Keltie Byrne in Canada.

Millions of African locusts invaded the Caribbean having flown 5,000 kilometres non-stop.

In December 1943, a British charity created gallantry medals for animals serving in war.

Memories of the bloody Antarctic industry which left whales on the brink of extinction.