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Play the silly word game my spouse and I came up with: "The Lazy Naturalist"

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The "Zebra Mantis Shrimp" is among the most egregious examples as it is (1) not a zebra, (2) not a mantis, and (3) not a shrimp. It is NOT a lion; is a fish.) - Whale shark, 1 point. However, it is a wasp. You play the game merely by discovering and sharing with me/us the name of a real animal.

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My Top 12 Wildlife Watching Moments

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A pair of screeching Blacksmith Lapwings was flying around as six Burchell’s Zebras were quenching their thirst, suspiciously observing surroundings every now and then. Those mice I began with had me thinking of what it would be like coming close to something big, really big. Like a school bus big. What are your best wildlife moments?

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Songbird-parrot link strengthened in new study, with implications for vocal learning

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This relatively new technique has been used to study relationships among and within several groups of mammals, including lagamorphs (rabbits and hares), rodents, and cetaceans (whales and dolphins), but I couldn’t find many references to its application in avian systematics yet. Ringer Suh et al.

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Birding by Volunteering

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But my long wait to see antelope, zebras and everything in between is finally over. In California I smelt the breath a Blue Whale as it passed feet beneath my boat. Not forever mind, I’ll still be living here in New Zealand and carrying on as its beat writer here (I may even write about New Zealand again some time).

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