Pet dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand human gesture.
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Leonardo Da Vinci loved animals so much that he used to buy caged animals at the market just to set them free.
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15% of snails survive digestion by birds and are found alive in their droppings, potentially leading to the spread of snail populations.
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An average cat has 1-8 kittens per litter and can have 2-3 litters per year. During her productive life, one female cat could have more than 100 kittens. A single pair of cats and their kittens can produce as many as 420,000 kittens in just 7 years.
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The station master and operating officer at the Kishi Station, Japan, is a cat!
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By putting a frog in a bucket of milk, scientists following up on an ancient Russian way of keeping milk from going sour have identified a wealth of new antibiotic substances.
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Cats are one of the only animals to domesticate themselves and approach humans on their own terms.
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Some lizards, in which the tail is a major storage organ for accumulating reserves, will return to a dropped tail after the threat has passed, and will eat it to recover part of the sacrificed supplies.
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