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Penguins' closest relatives are albatrosses.
Falcons' closest relatives are parrots and songbirds. (They're relatively distant from hawks and eagles.)
Pigeons are rather close to flamingos.
Chickens and ducks are the most basal modern birds (everything except ostriches and tinamous); their direct ancestors coexisted with their famous NAKED relatives.
http://www.nature.com/news/flock-of-geneticists-redraws-bird-family-tree-1.16536
Also, hippos are related to whales
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2967721/How-hippos-related-whales-Fossils-28-million-year-old-ancestor-provide-missing-link-creature-s-family-tree.html
...manatees are descended from elephants...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_sirenians
...and we are closer related to rats than cats and dogs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euarchontoglires
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Capybara are fairly closely related to guinea pigs.
Capy taxonomic name Hydrochaeris is greek for 'water hog'.
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>>2403611
This is the closest living animal to elephants an Dugongs.
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>>2403657
Native Africans actually suspected this, since some of them have small tusks.
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>>2403611
>most famous flightless bird
>related to greatest flying bird with longest wingspan
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>>2403611
So birds of prey are a paraphyletic group? Interesting didnt know that.
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>>2403657
Local zoo has several hyrax. They're pretty suspicious of people. Like to watch you from inside hollow logs. Excellent climbing ability.
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>>2403745
Yep. Owls are birds of prey too, but I think they've always been considered separate from the "traditional" raptors.
As a game warden once told me during a bird enthusiasts' meetup where they brought out some hawks and falcons, falcons have sort of a notch on their beaks which they use to tear up their prey. Hawks and eagles use their talons.
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>>2403985
>but I think they've always been considered separate from the "traditional" raptors.
They are but just not as distant as the falcons
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telluraves
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A classic that not many normies know: crocodiles are much more closely related to birds than they are to lizards
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>>2403663
I feel like there must be more to that then them just having tiny tusks.
Also hyenas are more closely related to felines than canines. I also think their closest living relatives are mongoose and meerkats.
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>>2403611
Hyenas are more closely related to mongooses, civets and cats than dogs.
Whales are technically ungulates
Kiwis are more closely related to elephant birds than any other species of ratite.
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>>2404450
>Whales are technically ungulates
>tfw too intelligent to continue adapting to life on land
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>>2403864
South African anon here. They are absolute cunt animals. They will casually stroll up to tourists and sink their teeth into their shoes. People have been hospitalised.
My friends and I once memed several Chinese exchange students into being terrified of them. Good times.
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>>2404690
Are they, dare I say, /ourguys/?
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>>2404509
And these scary-ass bastards were related to them (as well as hippos). Imagine a hyena the size of a cow with three-foot-long jaws.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrewsarchus
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