The ancestor of all domestic cats is the African Wild Cat which still exists today.
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Gorillas can catch human colds and other illnesses.
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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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The octopus does not have a blind spot.
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Jumping fleas can accelerate 50 times faster than the space shuttle.
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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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Some older/less efficient worker termites will develop 'backpacks' of toxic chemicals that explode when the termite is threatened. They are essentially used as suicide bombers when the colony is being attacked.
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