Category: Animal Fridays
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Meet the Komodo dragon
Happy April! Monday was April 1st, also known as April Fool’s Day. Hopefully, you didn’t get pranked too badly! Animals aren’t in the business of pranking people for April Fool’s Day, but some animals are just so wild that they seem like pranks. Take, for instance, the narwhal, the platypus, or the okapi. None of these animals…
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Meet the wombat
It’s been a hectic week. My fiancé had to go on an unexpected work trip to Australia, leaving me home alone to take care of the cat. Ori and I have been relaxing at home, though! And my fiancé has had some free time to explore Australia. I personally think he should be spending his…
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Meet the hedgehog
It’s officially spring in the Northern Hemisphere! And if you live in Europe, this means the return of an adorable animal: the hedgehog. Hedgehogs get their name from how they forage for food. They root through hedges, searching for small critters to eat, like insects, worms, and snails. As they nose through these hedges and…
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Meet the python
Yesterday, March 14, was Pi Day! A day to celebrate mathematics and the mathematical constant pi (π ) and a day to eat lots of pie. Do you know what the animal mascot of Pi Day should be? The pi-thon! Yes, I know that’s a bad joke. But still, Pi Day is a great reason to…
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Meet the deep-sea anglerfish
Today is International Women’s Day, a day to celebrate women’s empowerment and gather momentum for even greater achievements in the future. And there’s no better way to celebrate women than by taking a closer look at an animal where the females are in charge: deep-sea anglerfish. Deep-sea anglerfish are bony fish that live deep in…
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Meet the jacana
It’s February 29 as I write this, also known as Leap Day! It’s a day that only comes around every four years, so some people have come up with traditions to celebrate this unique day. One of those “traditions”? Leap Day used to be a day when women proposed marriage to men. Now, of course,…
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Meet the Eastern gray squirrel
It’s the weekend, and you know what that means: I get to play in a curling competition! The club I’m playing at this week has the cutest mascot: a little gray squirrel. The story goes that when the country club was expanding the golf course, they cut down a lot of trees. And what did…
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Meet the peacock spider
This past Wednesday was Valentine’s Day! Whether you’re single or paired up with a loved one, we can all take advice from peacock spiders. The best way to someone’s heart…is to DANCE. Peacock spiders are tiny jumping spiders in the genus Maratus found almost exclusively in Australia (one species is found in China). You can find peacock…
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Meet the manatee
It was an important holiday this week in the United States: National Fart Day. This past Monday, February 5, was the day we set aside to celebrate the very natural act of passing gas. After all, the average person farts between 10 and 20 times every day. This adds up to about the same amount…
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Meet the groundhog
Today, February 2, is Groundhog Day! A day when a groundhog predicts the weather, and we all celebrate the majesty of groundhogs. Groundhogs (Marmota monax) deserve to be celebrated because they are North America’s most widespread marmot (aka, ground squirrel) species. You can find groundhogs throughout most of the United States and Canada in various…