Tag: americas
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Meet the bumblebee
I found a fantastic scientific paper this week that made me so happy. It was about how bumblebees PLAY. Isn’t that just so cute??? I’ll tell you more about this paper and its finding in a second – first, I want to introduce you to the humble bumblebee. Bumblebees (also spelled bumble bee, bumble-bee, and…
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Meet the turkey vulture
Summer is approaching, and life is thriving outside. One animal that I associate with summer is the turkey vulture. There’s just something linking heat and seeing a turkey vulture circling above my head. If you live in the United States, you’ve likely seen turkey vultures as well. Turkey vultures (Cathartes aura) are found throughout the…
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Meet the coati
I have had the absolute pleasure of seeing today’s animal in the wild. My senior year of college, I went on a trip to Costa Rica over winter break for a class. One day, while we were getting ready to hike in the cloud forest, we saw a coati in the parking lot. He was…