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• Musk is a strong-smelling substance used in perfumes.
• It is mainly obtained from musk deer (male).
• It is also obtained from the African civet.
• African civet (also known as civet musk or civetone)
• Goat and sheep do not produce musk.
• Natural musk is rare and expensive, so synthetic musk is commonly used today.

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 Tigers (Panthera tigris) are classified as endangered by IUCN.

 Indus River Dolphin (Platanista minor) is also endangered.

Tigers face threats from habitat loss and poaching.

Indus dolphins are threatened by river pollution, dams, and reduced water flow.

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Protozoans that eat other organisms (solid food particles like bacteria or other microorganisms) are called Holozoic. 

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The method by which an animal adapts to resemble or act like another species (or an object in its environment) to gain a survival advantage is generally called mimicry. 

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•  The lateral line detects water movements.
•  It helps fish sense predators and prey.
•  It consists of mechanoreceptors called neuromasts.
•  It runs along the sides of the body.
•  It is essential for navigation in water.

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Woolly Mammoths thrived during the Pleistocene epoch of the Cenozoic and went extinct about 4,000 years ago.

The Cenozoic Era (66 million years ago – present) is known as the "Age of Mammals."

Dinosaurs went extinct at the end of the Mesozoic Era, not the Cenozoic.

Trilobites and ammonites went extinct before the Cenozoic.

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 Jurassic Period, approximately 201 to 145 million years ago

In this periode dinosaurs dominated terrestrial environments

The Mesozoic Era, known as the "Age of Reptiles," was dominated by dinosaurs