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An article from Science News Jan 2021
Some electric eels coordinate attacks to zap their prey
An article from Science News Jan 2021
These spiders may sew leaves into fake shelters to lure frogs to their doom
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Anthropocene extinction
An ongoing current event in which a large number of living species are threatened with extinction or are going extinct because of environmentally destructive human activities. The Earth is presently in the midst of a mass extinction event. In the…
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Bean
Any of several leguminous plants, or their seeds, long utilized as food by humans or livestock. There are more than 40,000 varieties of beans, with only a small number of these being mass-produced for human or animal consumption. In particular,…
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Burrowing animals
Terrestrial and aquatic animals that are capable of excavating holes in the ground for protection from adverse environmental conditions, as well as for storing food. Burrowing animals are uniquely adapted species, having the capacity to dig burrows…
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Camel
A member of the mammalian family Camelidae in the order Artiodactyla. Camels are even-toed, hoofed mammals (ungulates). There are three extant camel species: the Bactrian camel (Camelus bactrianus; Fig. 1), the wild Bactrian camel (C. ferus), and…
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Coral bleaching
The response of corals to environmental stress in which they eject the single-cell algae that live within the transparent coral tissue, making the white coral skeleton visible. Corals (Fig. 1) are animals that live in a partnership (symbiosis) with…
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Deep-sea fauna
Marine animal life inhabiting the portion of the oceans below the upper limit of the continental slopes. The marine animals that make up the deep-sea fauna live below the photic zone of the oceans. In general, the deep sea may be regarded as that…
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Diving animals
Various species of diving, air-breathing animals. Diving animals, which are found in every class of terrestrial vertebrates (amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals), are air-breathing species that have almost complete freedom in the aquatic…