Cows as they are today never existed in the wild and were domesticated from aurochs some 10,500 years ago.
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The ancestor of all domestic cats is the African Wild Cat which still exists today.
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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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The Hercules beetle, despite weighing only 100 grams, can lift 8 kilograms, making it one of the proportionally strongest animals in the world.
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Worker bees must visit around 4,000 flowers in order to make one tablespoon of honey.
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Sheep, goats, octopuses, and toads have rectangular pupils.
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Drivers kill more deer than hunters do.
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A zoo in China gave a gay penguin couple the opportunity to raise a chick.
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