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Animal Awareness Tip: Painted Turtles
Painted Turtles are ubiquitous due to the fact that you can find them anywhere from ponds to marshes and you can even encounter them crossing the road as you are driving towards your destination. Their...
View ArticleAnimal Awareness Tip: Red Fox (Vulpus vulpus)
Cats and dogs are two different species, but if you put them together they will make up the characteristics of a fox. Red foxes have dog-like ears and even tails, as well as diamond-shaped pupils...
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Animal Awareness Tip
Most common skunks found in the United States, Canada, and South America have black and white fur and are divided into 3 different genera. Mephitis are hooded and striped, Spilogale are spotted, and...
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Animal Awareness Tip – Coyote (Canis latrans)
Most people probably recall the desperate Wile E. Coyote in his wackiest and exaggerated failed attempts in capturing the Road Runner. Being that it was one of the popular cartoons growing up for our...
View ArticleAnimal Awareness Tip – Toco Toucan
Toco Toucans are by far the largest birds in the toucan family, containing massive hollow multicolored bills. They mostly reside in Central and South America. The airy, honeycombed, bone structure...
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Animal Awareness Tip – Colombian Spider Monkey
Spider monkeys are found in the tropical forests of Central and South America ranging from southern Mexico, to Colombia, to Brazil. They are known for their long limbs and extremely flexible tails,...
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Animal Awareness Tip – The Alligator
Alligators have been known to exist for 200 million years, since the ages of reptiles. There are currently two well known types: American Alligators (Alligator mississippiensis) and Chinese Alligators...
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Animal Awareness Tip – Grey Wolf
Grey wolves are the largest species of the Canidae family and survivors of the Ice Age era originating during Late Pleistocene 300,000 years ago. They are considered apex predators, meaning that they...
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Animal Awareness Tip – Hagfish
The Hagfish or the “slime eel” is probably one of the oddest sea creatures that you will ever encounter due to the fact that they are the only living organism with a skull but without a vertebral...
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Animal Awareness Tip – The Aye Aye
The Aye Aye is related to the lemur and can be found primarily in the eastern part of Madagascar. This nocturnal animal mostly relies on its rodent-like teeth and elongated middle finger to obtain its...
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Animal Awareness Tip – Mantis Shrimp
A mantis shrimp is neither a mantis nor a shrimp; however, their physical features resemble that of both species. They can reach a length of up to 38 centimeters and they may exhibit multiple colors...
View ArticleAnimal Awareness Tip: Platypus
What do you get when you mix a duck and a beaver together? A Platypus, of course. They are situated around the Eastern coast of Australia and Tasmania, where they inhabit small streams and rivers....
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Wild Boar
Wild boars reside mostly in Northern Europe, Central Europe, and the Mediterranean Region, including Africa’s Atlas Mountains. For the purpose of hunting, wild boars have been artificially introduced...
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Animal Awareness Tip: Emperor Penguins
Emperor Penguins are considered the tallest and heaviest of all other penguin breeds, reaching a height of up to 122 cm and weighing up to 45 kg. The females are a little less in both measurements....
View ArticleAnimal Awareness Tip – Koala
The koala is found in the coastal regions of eastern and southern Australia. The color of their thick fur varies in shades of grey to brown, and they are set with large rounded ears and sharp claws to...
View ArticleAnimal Awareness Tip – Lemurs
The Ring-tailed Lemurs live primarily in Madagascar, which is an island located southeast of Africa. They are notable for their vivid striped tails that contain a black and white coloration. These...
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Zebra Zebras are situated in Africa and are notable for their distinctive black and white stripes that are unique to each individual. The white stripes are typically vertical, beginning from the head...
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