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Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2017 2:27 pm
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N - Nightingale

The nightingale is believed to have been named more than 1,000 years ago, with the term nightingale meaning night songstress in Anglo-Saxon. The nightingale was named due to the fact that the nightingale is often heard singing during the night as well as during the day. It is thought that it is the single (unpaired) male nightingales that sing during the night which they do to try and attract a mate.

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Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2017 2:30 pm
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ORCA - These whales can travel at speeds of 30 mph. They can dive 1,000 ft deep for 12 minutes. Their diving ability comes from the fact that they are capable of efficiently extracting oxygen from the water. Orcas have a lot of red blood cells to transport great amounts of oxygen, which is then stored in the muscles. Orcas have good hearing, vision, and touch, but no sense of smell.

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N...NUMBAT'S IS A SMALL LONG-HAIRED MARSUPIAL, FOUND IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA. UNLIKE MOST FEMALE MARSUPIALS , THE FEMALE NUMBAT HAS
NO BELLY POUCH. THERE ARE LESS THAN 1,500 NUMBATS LEFT IN THE WILD,
WHICH MAKES THEM AN ENDANGERED SPECIES.

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Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2017 4:46 pm
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P - Polar Bear - found in the coastal areas throughout the Arctic. Polar Bears are semi-aquatic mammals that live on the fringe of vast ice fields that surround the North Pole. Polar Bears have proportionally longer necks than other types of bears so that they can lunge after seals and other aquatic prey more easily.

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Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2017 1:29 am
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Q QUETZAL
The Quetzal is an incredibly coloured bird with males displaying a bright metallic green or blue on most of their bodies besides the deep red of the chest and belly. The male Quetzal also has a distinctive tuft of golden green feathers that form a crest on top of their heads and immensely long twin tail feathers that can grow up to a meter in length. Although females do not grow such an impressively long train they are of a similar colouration to their male counterparts with their plumage not being quite as bright. The deep red of the chest is often much duller or even grey (as is the metallic green) and they have grey or bronze coloured heads edged with green. As with other members of the Trogon family, the feet of the Quetzal are unique with two toes facing forward and two back on each foot that aid the Quetzal when perching high in the trees.

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Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2017 3:36 am
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R - Red Rock crab - They live amongst the rocks at the often turbulent, windy shore, just above the limit of the sea spray. They feed mainly on algae, sometimes sampling plant matter and dead animals.

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Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2017 7:59 am
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SEAL HARBOR - Harbor seals can be differentiated from sea lions by several factors, including that they do not have external ears and cannot walk on their fore or hind limbs (rather, they inch along on their bellies).

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T...THORNY DEVIL IS A SMALL LIZARD, FOUND IN AUSTRALIA. KNOWN FOR IT'S EXTREMELY SPIKY APPEARANCE, THAT NOT ONLY HELPS HIM BLEND IN WITH HIS DESERT SURROUNDINGS, BUT STORES WATER BETWEEN THOSE CONE SHAPED SPIKES. THESE ANIMALS ALSO HAVE TWO HEADS, THEY LOWER THE REAL HEAD, AND PROTRUDES THE FAKE HEAD FROM THE BACK OF IT'S
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Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2017 3:57 pm
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U Upupa bird
a small genus (the type of the family Upupidae of the order Coraciiformes) of nonpasserine birds comprising the typical hoopoes

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V - Vampire bats are bats that feed on blood. There are only three bat species that actually feed on blood: The Common Vampire Bat, the Hairy-legged Vampire Bat and the White-winged Vampire Bat. They very rarely bite people because they apparently dislike human blood.

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Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2017 5:04 pm
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W - Water Buffalo

Watter buffalo like to wallow in water holes and feed on grass, leaves and aquatic plants

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Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2017 6:48 pm
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Yellow-billed stork - The yellow-billed stork has white and black flight feathers and a black tail. It also has a bare red face with a long yellow bill

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Z - zebrafish - a tropical freshwater fish belonging to the minnow family. It is a popular aquarium fish. The zebrafish is also an important and widely used vertebrate model organism in scientific research, and was among the first vertebrates to be cloned (frogs were cloned decades earlier).

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A Armadillos are New World placental mammals in the order Cingulata with a leathery armour shell. ( and often roadkill here in Texas)

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B - Banteng

Banteng are a species of wild cattle found in Southeast Asia and also is one of the heaviest land animals.

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