A painting elephant, a whistling orangutan, a uni-flipper turtle and a piano-playing cat (from top left) are among some of the most amazing animals.
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As people, they'd be more impressive than many. That they're animals will blow you away.
These crowd-pleasing critters do everything: They dance, they paint, they even save lives.
They break records, they make history and they find friends in the most unfamiliar places.
ABCNews.com sees a lot of amazing animals, but here are 11 of our favorites.
Even some humans can't do it. But Ujian, a 14-year-old ape at Germany's Heidelberg Zoo, is such an accomplished whistler, he just cut his first CD. He reportedly taught himself how to whistle last summer.
"Ich Bin Ujian" ("I Am Ujian") will go on sale at the zoo in June, Germany's Der Spiegel reported earlier this week. The fun, pop-rock song with a bit of a reggae influence, combine's Ujian's whistling with lyrics sung by Tobias Kämmerer.
The chorus includes the lines: "I am Ujian the orangutan. I am so cool, man, I'm a star."
In the YouTube universe, this bird is a big star. A video of Snowball rocking out to the Backstreet Boys has been viewed more than 2 million times since it was posted in 2007.
The video also inspired a first-ever study on how animals "dance" to the music that was published by the journal Current Biology in late April.
The article said that the animals shared with people some ability mimic sounds they hear, the Associated Press reported.
Call her the Nadya Suleman of the canine world. A super-fertile Florida dog named Dixie gave birth to 20 puppies last week.
"It's been around-the-clock feedings" said Dixie's owner, Deanna Stewart. "Because she has so many, she can't do it on her own, so we're having to bottle feed just to make sure they're all rotated and everything's fine with that."
Dixie fell just short of the world record, which is 24 puppies. But her owners have their hands full.
"It's a hard job. We have to go every three hours and feed them," said Deanna's son, Braxton Stewart.
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