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

10,000 Birds

For example, I was going to add “no tail” to the list of features above, what all frogs share, when I remembered that there are indeed a small family of Tailed frogs, four species in New Zealand and two in North America (though, the tails are quite tiny). Thrity-seven species are probably already extinct.

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

These birds can learn to pull a string to retrieve a short stick, use the stick to pull out a longer one, then use the long stick to draw out a piece of meat. On a beach in New Zealand, a dolphin came to the rescue of two pygmy sperm whales stranded behind a sand bar. Photo by Flickker Photos. the Spring 2011 issue of YES!

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