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How do hairless mammals like elephants and rhinos with cold?

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With no layer of fur, how do they manage? While these animals live in places with hot temperatures, it definitely gets incredibly cold in winter and at night. Do they not feel uncomfortable like we do? submitted by /u/mrmulticultural99 [link] [comments]

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The little-known effect of the Egyptian Goose on the work load of the Florida Records Committee

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2 – Inspite of being a hardy species by nature, a trait formed over millions of years of having to make a living where elephant and lion come to drink, they will indeed and on rare occasions escape human presence by taking off and flying away from an observer. Like old-growth forests along rivers of the Florida panhandle.

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Are Birds Really Dinosaurs?

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People also say that hyraxes are elephants, but they are so distant in their relationship that it is little different than saying that deer are a type of pronghorn antelope. You’ll hear people tell you that birds are dinosaurs, and that is supposed to blow you away and make you go all gaga about birds and evolution.

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

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Elephants, whales, hippopotamuses, giraffes, and alligators use low-frequency sounds to communicate over long distances, often miles; and bats, dolphins, whales, frogs, and various rodents use high-frequency sounds to find food, communicate with others, and navigate. Empathy Among Elephants. Elephants have strong feelings.

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Offshore Sea Life ID Guide: West Coast–A Book Review

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The two main chapters cover Marine Mammals (Orca; Whales; Dolphins and Porpoises; Sea Lions, Fur Seals, and Elephant Seal; Rarer Marine Mammals) and Seabirds (Albatrosses, Shearwaters and Fulmar, Strom-Petrels, Phalaropes, Alcids, Red-billed Tropicbird, Brown Booby, South Polar Skua, Jaegers, Gulls and Terns, Rarer Seabirds).

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A Field Guide to the Wildlife of South Georgia: A Book Review by a Penguin Groupie

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Over 3 million pairs of Antarctic Fur Seals breed on South Georgia, saved from near extinction by fur hunters. Southern Elephant Seals and Weddell Seals are also resident, though not in such large numbers. Seals and Whales are also given a lot of attention, with entries organized similarly to the bird species accounts.

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The Feather Thief: A Book Review

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Each fly has a name and a ‘recipe’ to follow for its creation, a complicated procedure utilizing a hook, sometimes fur, sometimes wool, but always brightly colored feathers from rare birds. That’s pretty much the reaction of anybody hearing this for the first time. Kelson, published in 1895.