The Platypus used to be considered a myth like Bigfoot and the Yeti.
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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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Cows as they are today never existed in the wild and were domesticated from aurochs some 10,500 years ago.
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Pet dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand human gesture.
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Early American humans hunted car-size armadillos and used their shells for houses.
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Cats sleep for 70% of their lives.
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Sandy, an African Penguin, has been in 'love' with her keeper at the Nuremburg zoo since 1996.
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