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A couple of facts :D

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Seals can mimic humans, you've heard of Crows and Parrots mimicing human speech but Seals can to, one Harbor seal named Hoover was able to mimic his owners voice and could say stuff like "Get over here!" Deer, cattle, camel and goats are more closely related to dolphins and whales then they are with horses.

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West Point Cadet’s Mouse Release

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Carefully rehabbed seals are released, only to find an orca waiting silently beneath the water a hundred feet away. Rabbits scamper into the underbrush, only to encounter a coyote nobody saw standing there. But this is not always the case.

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The Nature of the Meadowlands: A Book Review

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A camera with a motion-sensitive shutter had to be used to prove that there are coyotes living in at least one closed landfill. (I really don’t bird Northern New Jersey as often as I should.) Mammal life has been harder to find and photograph. There are, at least 2 species, thank goodness.