Tag: south america
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Meet the alpaca
I had an exciting weekend – I went with some friends to visit an ALPACA FARM!!!! Do you know how cute alpacas are? (Spoiler: they’re pretty cute). And alpacas are sooooo soft. They almost didn’t feel real. Beyond letting us meet alpacas, the farm gave us some interesting facts about these animals that I want […]
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Meet the vampire bat
I watched the movie Morbius over the weekend. It was… a movie. And not a very good one. Some of the movie’s choices I can look past. Most fantasy / action movies require some suspension of disbelief. Do I wish they had given more context about the character backstories? Sure. Can I look past the […]
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Meet the vampire ground finch
I have slowly been reading Bram Stoker’s Dracula over the past few months through Dracula Daily (it’s a great site that emails you parts of Dracula on the day they occurred in the novel). If you haven’t read Dracula, I highly recommend it. It’s a pretty good read! Because of Dracula, I’ve been thinking a […]
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Meet the screaming hairy armadillo
It’s hot this week in Boston. And sitting in my hot apartment, sometimes the heat makes me want to scream. So what better time to introduce you to a screaming animal who thrives in the desert: the screaming hairy armadillo. The screaming hairy armadillo (Chaetophractus vellerosus) is the smallest of the hairy armadillos (there are […]
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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 […]
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Meet the Great Horned Owl
I love owls; they’re one of my favorite animals (up there with foxes and wolves). I even have a set of owls that I cross stitched hanging on the wall in my bedroom. And honestly, what’s not to like about owls? They’re so cool! They have asymmetrical ears, which helps them better pinpoint the location […]