“Dogs evolved the use of muscles around their eyes that allow them to be expressive with their eyes (the famous puppy dog eyes). This is not seen in any other species in the Canidae family. The theory is that it came about from living amongst us for thousands of years and they basically slowly learned how to communicate with us and get what they want out of us.”
#18 Just like all the other mammals, meat, vegetables, whatever is available to eat.
life is essentially meaningless without death. if things lived a very long time, people would just put it off until later.
Humans just live too long. Most animals have a handful of years to live. American opossums only live 3-4 and make incredibly great pets for the first 2. Then they hit maturity and need to run free and breed. Then they raise their young for a year and die, like an Octopus...