A domestic cat can sprint at about 31 miles per hour.
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Mosquitoes prefer certain blood types, and people with the “O” blood type are more likely to get bitten.
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In 2011, a male tiger in India adopted a litter of orphaned cubs, taking on the role of ‘mother’. Wildlife officials say such behavior had never been observed before.
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Unsinkable Sam (nickname of a German ship's cat) who served on 3 warships, one German, two British, all sank in action. The cat survived each sinking, floating away on wooden planks to rescue.
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Tigers can see 6 times better at night than humans.
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Parrotfish make themselves a kind of mucus 'sleeping bag' which masks their smell from predators and keeps parasites away.
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Sifrhippus was a species of horse about the size of an average duck and roamed North America 56 million years ago.
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