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Tips on how to create data for my animal guessing game

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If its an animal that lives in both like a seal or something similar i could show both. One of the issues with this is that most people dont know anything about oceans or marine animals etc, and a lot of animals would be easier to guess with only continents (like seals and penguins etc).

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Are Atlantic Puffins in Trouble?

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That is, warmer oceans are changing fish populations, with butterfish beginning to supplant the herring that Puffins usually feed their young. For now, though, the Puffins have returned to Seal Island in Maine and are trying their best to raise healthy families.

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Flock to Marion

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This spurred her to pursue a career in environmental education and wildlife nature tourism as a park ranger in Texas and as the Great Florida Birding and Wildlife Trail Coordinator with Florida Fish and Wildlife. The seal hunters accidentally introduced mice to Marion, as was the case for many islands around the world.

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Why Do Penguins Wear Tuxedos?

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They eat only seafood, including fish, squid, krill and other organisms. Artists rendition of Inkayacu paracasensis There are 17 living species of penguins, which make up their own Linnean family (Spheniscidae), which is the only family in the order Sphenisciformes. Salas-Gismondi, R., Altamirano, A., Shawkey, M., Vinther, J.,

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Frogs and Toads of the World: A Book Review by a Fairy Tale Junkie

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Or, Pygmy leaf-folding frogs, Afrixalus brachycnemis, from Tanzania, tiny climbing frogs who lay their eggs in leaves and then fold the leaves over them for protection, sealing the nest with secretions. There is a large family of frogs, Bufonidae, that includes most of the warty, hoppy creatures we think of as toads.

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Tsunami Pics from Midway Atoll

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The Islands hold important populations of Monk Seals as well as all the world’s Laysan Ducks and Laysan Finches. Fish & Wildlife comes in response to a lawsuit brought by the Center for Biological Diversity. Tags: Asides , tsunami • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more!

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The Art of Bird Camp

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Each year Hog Island offers programs, taught by a stellar staff of naturalists and artists, to groups of all kinds (teenagers, adults, families). As we coasted through the water, staff member Tom Johnson pointed out basking harbor seals and identified birds for the uninitiated (“Female Lesser Scaup at two o’clock!”)

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