A cat rubs against people not only to be affectionate but also to mark out its territory with scent glands around its face. The tail area and paws also carry the cat's scent.
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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 has been calculated that a single breath from a mature blue whale can inflate up to 2,000 balloons.
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There is a sea snail that wears a suit of iron plated armor. It is the only known animal to use iron sulphide as skeletal material.
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The ancestor of all domestic cats is the African Wild Cat which still exists today.
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Sheep, goats, octopuses, and toads have rectangular pupils.
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Leonardo Da Vinci loved animals so much that he used to buy caged animals at the market just to set them free.
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