Pet dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand human gesture.
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A lion in the wild usually makes no more than twenty kills a year.
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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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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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