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As of 2015, there are over 2 million cat videos on YouTube alone, and cats are one of the most searched keywords on the Internet. [ 7] CNN estimated that in 2015 there could be around 6.5 billion cat pictures on the Internet. [ 15] The Internet has been described as a "virtual cat park, a social space for cat lovers in the same way that dog ...
The flehmen response (/ ˈ f l eɪ m ən /; from German flehmen, to bare the upper teeth, and Upper Saxon German flemmen, to look spiteful), also called the flehmen position, flehmen reaction, flehmen grimace, flehming, or flehmening, is a behavior in which an animal curls back its upper lip exposing its front teeth, inhales with the nostrils usually closed, and then often holds this position ...
In 2003, the world's first cloned horse, Prometea, was born. [46] In 2006, Scamper, an extremely successful barrel racing horse, a gelding, was cloned. The resulting stallion, Clayton, became the first cloned horse to stand at stud in the U.S. [47] In 2007, a renowned show jumper and Thoroughbred, Gem Twist, was cloned by Frank Chapot and his ...
Equus ( / ˈɛkwəs, ˈiːkwəs /) [ 3] is a genus of mammals in the family Equidae, which includes horses, asses, and zebras. Within the Equidae, Equus is the only recognized extant genus, comprising seven living species. Like Equidae more broadly, Equus has numerous extinct species known only from fossils. The genus originated in North ...
There were many animals aboard the Titanic during her disastrous maiden voyage, which ended with the ship sinking on 15 April 1912 after colliding with an iceberg. [ 1] They included dogs, [ 2] cats, [ 3] chickens, [ 4] other birds and an unknown number of rats. [ 5] Three of the twelve dogs on the Titanic survived; [ 6][ 7] all other animals ...
Updated January 12, 2017 at 9:45 AM. These delightful creatures are called capybaras. Heralded as the world's largest rodents, the South American rainforest natives can actually weigh as much as a ...
Behavioral ecology is the study of the ecological and evolutionary basis for animal behavior; Biodiversity; Bioethics; Biology and sexual orientation; Ethology is the scientific study of animal behavior, and a branch of zoology; cognitive ethology fuses cognitive science and classical ethology to observe animals under more-or-less natural ...
Equus scotti is a true caballine horse that is more closely related to modern horses than to zebras and asses. Equus scotti may be synonymous with Equus lambei, another generally smaller horse known from the Pleistocene of North America, but this is uncertain. [3] Although it has been suggested that Equus scotti may be synonymous with living ...