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Black panthers are just leopards or jaguars with excess black pigment

Updated on May 15, 2024June 3, 2023

Jaguars are in the Americas and leopards are in Africa and Asia. ‘Panther’ is a name given to the genus Panthera which includes lions, tigers, leopards, and jaguars.

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A group of porcupines is called a prickle

Updated on May 15, 2024May 28, 2023

North American porcupines are found in forests in Canada, the northeastern and western United States and northern Mexico. 

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Sea angels are one of the smallest and vicious marines animals at under 5cm

Updated on May 18, 2024May 23, 2023

Sea angels are a type of gelatinous, transparent slug. Sea angels will grab their prey and eat them through the protrusions on their head. The protrusions, called buccal cones, have hooks and a kind of toothed-tongue on the inside.  Their organs are colorful and can be seen through their transparent bodies.

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Wallabies are known to get high on opium and create crop circles in poppy fields

Updated on May 15, 2024May 23, 2023

Wallabies are native to Australia and are not the same as Kangaroo’s. Australia produces a lot of the world’s raw material for morphine and related opiates.  In 2009, a lawmaker was quoted telling press “We have a problem with wallabies entering poppy fields, getting as high as a kite and going around in circles, then …

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Baby birds eat worms while mom eats fecal sack

Updated on May 15, 2024May 20, 2023

Baby birds digest food into neat little nutrient filled fecal sacks. Not only does it help keep the nest clean but it allows mom to easily eat the leftover food.

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