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A couple of facts :D

Reddit Animals

Elephants can communicate via vibrations, they have these fatty pads within their feet which is also what allows them to walk quietly, these pads can easily pick up vibrations. Deer, cattle, camel and goats are more closely related to dolphins and whales then they are with horses. . •

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Extinction Week Recap

10,000 Birds

It’s when we lost the mammoths, the sabre-tooth cats, the giant ground sloths, the elephant birds, the marsupial lions, and other iconic giants. And some of the extinctions were of small animals, like the many dwarf goats and elephants in the Mediterranean. The Mysterious Starling – “Killed Hopping About in a Tree”.

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Questionable Practices at the Calgary Zoo

Critter News

Incidents include a hippo who died in transport from Denver and a Turkmenian markhor, a species of wild goat, hung itself at the zoo after becoming trapped by a rope. In November 2008, a virus killed a 15-month-old Asian elephant calf named Malti. In April 2009, unseasonably cold weather froze two whopping crane eggs.

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