Dogs sometimes fake being sick to get attention.
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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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Drivers kill more deer than hunters do.
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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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The oldest known animal in the world was 'Ming' the 405 year old clam, discovered in 2007.
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Parrotfish make themselves a kind of mucus 'sleeping bag' which masks their smell from predators and keeps parasites away.
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Sloths take two weeks to digest their food.
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