Cats are one of the only animals to domesticate themselves and approach humans on their own terms.
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All pandas are ‘owned’ by China. They rent them out to zoos for $1mil/year each with minimum of 10 years.
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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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It has been calculated that a single breath from a mature blue whale can inflate up to 2,000 balloons.
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In 1918, a homing pigeon saved over 190 American soldiers by delivering a message to nearby support despite having been shot through the breast, blinded in one eye, covered in blood, and with a leg hanging on by just a tendon.
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Only 3% of bird species have penises.
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Squirrels forget where they hide about half of their nuts.
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