The ancestor of all domestic cats is the African Wild Cat which still exists today.
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An alligator can go through 2,000 to 3,000 teeth in a lifetime.
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It has been estimated that a bite from a grizzly bear can crush a bowling ball.
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Parrot parents "name" their children with a signature call.
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There's a young hippo and a 130+ year old tortoise in a Kenyan wildlife preserve who are best friends and they even sleep and play together.
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The oldest known animal in the world was 'Ming' the 405 year old clam, discovered in 2007.
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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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