Cats are one of the only animals to domesticate themselves and approach humans on their own terms.
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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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Termites are being researched as a possible renewable energy source as they can produce up to 2 litres of hydrogen from ingesting a single sheet of paper, making them one of the planet’s most efficient bioreactors.
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The elephant brain weighs about 6,000g.
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During World War 1, starving wolves amassed in such great numbers that Germans and Russians had a temporary cease fire to fight off the wolf attacks.
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It would take about 1,200,000 mosquitoes to fully drain the average human body of blood.
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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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One reason that kittens sleep so much is because a growth hormone is released only during sleep.
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