re: Surprisingly fearless animals

I think you may all be wrong. There's a huge difference between fearless and courageous. Freaking Audie Murphy said he felt fear every time he went into combat. Sometimes you do what you have to do in spite of the fear.

Having said that, we had a pet specklebelly goose when I was a kid. I watched it whip a bad arse German Shepard, not once but three times. But you could see it was scared shitless. But it was fight or die.