The elephant shrew’s closest relative isn’t a shrew — it’s actually an elephant
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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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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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The Basenji dog is the only dog that is not able to bark.
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The most expensive dog in the world is the Tibetan Mastiff; worth $1.5 million.
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