Alex the Parrot - The first animal to ask an existential question

Bebe the Dolphin - famous for starring as ‘Flipper’ in the 1964-1967 NBC tv series.

Congo the Chimpanzee - famous for being able to draw and paint.

Dolly the sheep - the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell.

Eros the Snowy Owl - in 1950 he became exhausted and fell on the deck of HMS Eros off the Azores.

Fido the Street Dog - After his master died in an accident, Fido waited every day for fourteen years at the town bus stop anticipating his return

George the Pinta Island Tortoise - famous for being the last surviving animal in his species.

Huberta the Hippo - South African Hippo who walked 1600km from the St Lucia Estuary to the Eastern Cape

Invictus the Horse - made a senator by Roman Emperor Caligula.