Gorillas can catch human colds and other illnesses.
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A lion in the wild usually makes no more than twenty kills a year.
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Cats sleep for 70% of their lives.
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The two oldest cats on record lived to 38 and 34 years old, both were owned by the same owner and lived off a diet of bacon, eggs, broccoli and coffee.
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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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Shark corneas are used in eye transplants and shark bone marrow can be used to graft human bones.
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The difference between antlers and horns is that antlers are shed each year and are made of bone while horns are kept for life and are made of living tissue and bone with a sheath that is very similar to human finger nails.
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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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