Parrot parents "name" their children with a signature call.
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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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An average cat has 1-8 kittens per litter and can have 2-3 litters per year. During her productive life, one female cat could have more than 100 kittens. A single pair of cats and their kittens can produce as many as 420,000 kittens in just 7 years.
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Nervous dogs wag their tails to the left, and happy dogs to the right (from the dog’s point of view) – and fellow canines pick up on this lop-sided tail language.
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Cats are one of the only animals to domesticate themselves and approach humans on their own terms.
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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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