The reindeer is the only mammal that can see UV light.
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The ancestor of all domestic cats is the African Wild Cat which still exists today.
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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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Termites are being researched as a possible renewable energy source as they can produce up to 2 litres of hydrogen from ingesting a single sheet of paper, making them one of the planet’s most efficient bioreactors.
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In 1918, a homing pigeon saved over 190 American soldiers by delivering a message to nearby support despite having been shot through the breast, blinded in one eye, covered in blood, and with a leg hanging on by just a tendon.
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