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Giraffes are the world's tallest mammals,

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These big cats are quite nimble at high speed and can make quick and sudden turns in pursuit of prey

The cheetah is the world's fastest land mammal.

They have sharp incisors to clip leaves at the front of the mouth, separated from the grinding cheek teeth by a wide diastema.

while the brain's two cerebral hemispheres are like "a pair of shrivelled walnut halves on top of the brain stem, in contact neither with each other nor the bones of the skull. It is the only animal on Earth with such a strangely reduced brain

Koalas spend about three of their five active hours eating

Cats have a rapid breeding rate.

Cats can hear sounds too faint or too high in frequency for human ears, such as those made by mice and other small game. They can see in near darkness. Like most other mammals, cats have poorer color vision and a better sense of smell than humans.

A feline litter usually consists of two to five kittens. The kits are born after a gestation that lasts between 64 and 67 days, with an average length of 66 days.[2] Kittens emerge in a sac called the amnion which is bitten off and eaten by the mother cat.[3]

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A litter of kittens being suckled by their mother

It had been thought that sloths were among the most somnolent animals, sleeping from 15 to 18 hours each day

Both names mean "leaf-eaters"; derived from Latin and Greek respectively

Dolphins are marine mammals closely related to whales and porpoises

mostly in the shallower seas of the continental shelves