Collared lemurs live in the humid forests of Southeastern Madagascar. They share their habitat with the more dominant ring-tailed lemurs and are often roused by the more aggressive lemur breed to move to other trees, though they are usually able…
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RHETORICAL OXYMORON OF A REDUNDANCY Human beings are already like animals in their traits. Always have been to varying degrees and always will be to varying degrees. When human beings are born, at the most base level, they are like…
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Snowshoes, High Heels, Cleats, and Swim Fins<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” />Shoes: you find them everywhere. From young toddlers to the elderly, people of all ages wear many different shoes in order to be stylish, stay warm, protect…
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Pycnogonids are a Class of Arthropods called sea spiders, because they resemble spiders and live in the oceans. They are slow-moving, crawling predators, usually white or pale yellow or orange in colour. Most have 8 jointed legs (although a few…
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Nearly everyone has experienced a mosquito bite, the raised bump, the unbearable itching. The story of mosquitoes and man is a complex tale of adaptation, co-existence and far too often, a deadly illness. The United States, and upstate New York,…
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Because most of us don’t eat insects, we tend to think they aren’t that important except in negative ways, but in fact it could be argued that without insects we wouldn’t even be here. Insects are of major importance in…
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Butterflies, skippers, and moths are all members of the order Lepidoptera. Among them, moths have by far the largest numbers. There are five families of butterflies worldwide, one family of the closely related skippers, and 125 families of moths. Many…
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The Painted trillium is a wildflower. The scientific name for this flower is Trillium undulatum. It is a member of the genus trillium and is found from Ontario in the north to the Carolinas in the south and from Michigan…
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Velvet worms. Nice name, but what are they? Why are they in their own Phylum, the Onychophora? Where are they found and why have most people never heard of them, much less seen them? Velvet worms only occur in remnants…
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The Yellow rattle is a flowering plant .It’s proper name is Rhinanthus minor and is a part of the genus Thinanthus in the family Orobanchaceae. It is a native of Western Asia and Europe. It is a semi-parasite of the…
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