The ancestor of all domestic cats is the African Wild Cat which still exists today.
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A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second.
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Ants began farming about 50 million years before humans thought to raise their own crops.
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Cats recognise the voice of their owner, but never evolved to care.
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Alligator snapping turtles can live for over 150 years. Scientists know this because some of the turtles had musket balls in their stomachs.
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Despite the hump, a camel's spine is straight.
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At 188 decibels, the whistle of the blue whale is the loudest sound produced by any animal
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Cows as they are today never existed in the wild and were domesticated from aurochs some 10,500 years ago.
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