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Sunday, 23 July 2023
A Puma's Larder
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Most animals, mammals included, spend a considerable proportion of their time either eating or searching for something to eat. Foraging for ...
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Sunday, 16 July 2023
The Stinky Family: Skunks
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Unlike raccoons , there was relatively little confusion on the part of early zoologists as to what general sort of animal the skunks were. ...
Sunday, 9 July 2023
Oligocene (Pt 3): From Musk Deer to Hell-Pigs
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Entelodon The Grande Coupure that marked the beginning of the Oligocene in Europe did not have as dramatic an effect on the cloven-hoofed an...
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Sunday, 2 July 2023
The Sex Lives of Female Jaguars
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There are many ways of classifying mating systems in animals, but one of the most basic uses four main types . In polygynous species, the ma...
Sunday, 25 June 2023
Pennsylvania Elk with a Wyoming Accent
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We're familiar enough with the idea that humans in different parts of the world speak with different accents and vocabulary, even if the...
Sunday, 18 June 2023
The Raccoon Family: Olingos
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Northern olingo While it's probably fair to say that the members of the raccoon family unique to Latin America are less well-known to th...
Sunday, 11 June 2023
A Tale of Three Ground Sloths
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Today, sloths are slow-moving tree-dwelling animals found only in South and Central America. For most of their evolutionary history, however...
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