A cat rubs against people not only to be affectionate but also to mark out its territory with scent glands around its face. The tail area and paws also carry the cat's scent.
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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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Shark corneas are used in eye transplants and shark bone marrow can be used to graft human bones.
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Sifrhippus was a species of horse about the size of an average duck and roamed North America 56 million years ago.
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Camels and llamas can cross breed. The offspring is called a ‘Cama’.
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By putting a frog in a bucket of milk, scientists following up on an ancient Russian way of keeping milk from going sour have identified a wealth of new antibiotic substances.
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A lion in the wild usually makes no more than twenty kills a year.
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