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Turpentine Creek

Emma Caracal ** ANIMAL FACTS ** The caracal is a fascinating feline that lives in different environments compared to its relatives. Although servals and caracals are similar in size, servals love to hunt in wetter areas, while caracals are perfectly adapted to the drier regions of Africa and the Middle East. It's amazing how these cats thrive in such varied habitats!

#caracal#caracalcat#nature
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Turpentine Creek

Dryden Bobcat *** ANIMAL FACTS *** The bobcat, characterized by its distinctively fluffy cheeks, prominent ear tufts, and abbreviated tail, is recognized as the most widely distributed wild cat species throughout North America. Its adaptability to various environments contributes to its extensive range across the continent.

#TCWR#TurpentineCreek#GFAS
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Hedgewizard 🐈

Today i learned that woodpeckers eyes have evolved to be fixed in position so they don't get damaged when they hammer. If they want to look around, they have to turn their heads.

Also woodpeckers have evolved probing tongues that are SO LONG that the hyoid channel that holds them wraps *right around the back of their skull*

I feel sure that there is a complex woodpecker-walks-into-a-bar joke there somewhere, but I'm too tired to even think about it

Edit: brain squirrels came up with one overnight
beige.party/@Hedgewizard/11234

Cross section diagram showing woodpecker head, showing that the center of the muscle-wrapped hyoid is in the nostrils, in the bird's upper beak. It splits into a V between the eyes, and its two arms wrap completely around the woodpecker's skull, passing over the top of it and around the back before meeting up again at the base of the lower beak.
#animalfacts#woodpecker#birds
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Carson Hill 📎

#TIL Red Pandas are the only animals in their family, Ailuridae. There are two species of them that look the same, and we've accidentally been interbreeding those species for years. Red Pandas were called "pandas" before Panda Bears were called pandas.

#PandaBears are (you guessed it) unrelated to #RedPandas. They're not related to raccoons, or to foxes, though they look kinda similar to both.

I don't have a cute image for you, but tagging exists for reasons.

#AnimalFacts#Science#Nature
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Chad Schultz

#TIL that the reason male Amazon river dolphins are pink is due to scarring from battles.
In other words, in Amazon river dolphin culture, pink is associated with toughness.
Thanks to the Creature Feature #science #podcast, which is a great resource for #AnimalFacts iheart.com/podcast/105-creatur
Additional source: nationalgeographic.com/animals

iHeartLisa Frankimals - Creature Feature | iHeart<p>Today we're talking about animals that look like they jumped off of a page from Lisa Frank's notebook! Pink dolphins, rainbow squirrels, surprisingly fabulous pigeons, and the most beautiful butts in the world. </p> <p><strong>Guest: </strong>Joelle Monique </p> <p><strong>Footnotes:</strong> <a href='https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fdocument%2Fd%2F12uHLiRYjc0_-rKv_fCFSpkTMN8f4ysX9do1j_uLC0r4%2Fedit%3Fusp%3Dsharing&data=05%7C02%7CMiaTaylor%40iheartmedia.com%7Ca2a4b554bdd44b6d524708dc2810d468%7C122a527e5b714eba878d9810b495b9e3%7C0%7C0%7C638429299972228263%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=eTGm%2FF3zxjJknYHR%2F3lZpHdlKFkNCzxigJ9PJrTb%2Fn8%3D&reserved=0'>https://docs.google.com/document/d/12uHLiRYjc0_-rKv_fCFSpkTMN8f4ysX9do1j_uLC0r4/edit?usp=sharing</a></p><p>See <a href='https://omnystudio.com/listener'>omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.</p>
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Chad Schultz

#TIL there was a breed of "woolly" dog sheared like sheep, its fur used as wool.
I heard this in the #podcast "Stuff You Missed in History Class" iheart.com/podcast/105-stuff-y
Additional source:
amnh.org/explore/news-blogs/re
#AnimalFacts

iHeartUnearthed! in Fall/Winter 2023, Part 2 - Stuff You Missed in History Class | iHeart<p> </p> <p>Finishing out discussion of things literally and figuratively dug up in the last months of 2023, we're covering shipwrecks, art, animals, and the miscellaneous category we call potpourri.</p> <p><strong>Research:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Alberge, Dalya. “That’s not a potato: mystery of Egyptian treasures found buried in grounds of Scottish school.” The Guardian. 11/19/2023. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/nov/19/thats-not-a-potato-mystery-of-egyptian-treasures-found-buried-in-grounds-of-scottish-school</li> <li>Anderson, Sonja. “This Mysterious Hillside Carving Is Actually Hercules, Researchers Say.” Smithsonian. 1/2/2024. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/england-cerne-abbas-giant-is-really-hercules-once-used-to-rally-troops-180983522/</li> <li>“Runestones reveal the power of a Viking queen.” Phys.org. 10/13/2023. https://phys.org/news/2023-10-runestones-reveal-power-viking-queen.html</li> <li>Babbs, Verity. “Archaeologists Discover Ancient Roman Baths Beneath a Museum in Croatia.” Artnet. 12/12/2023. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/roman-baths-split-croatia-2406697</li> <li>Babbs, Verity. “The $4 N.C. Wyeth Painting Finally Sold—for Real This Time.” ArtNet. 12/19/2023. https://news.artnet.com/market/wyeth-thrift-store-painting-finally-sold-2411412</li> <li>Fordham, Alice. “Fossil footprints in New Mexico suggest humans have been here longer than we thought.” NPR. 10/7/2023. https://www.npr.org/2023/10/07/1204031535/fossil-footprints-in-new-mexico-suggest-humans-have-been-here-longer-than-we-tho</li> <li>Innes-Leroux, Matthew. “Evidence from the remains of 1918 flu pandemic victims contradicts long-held belief that healthy young adults were particularly vulnerable.” EurekAlert. 10/9/2023. https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1003882</li> <li>Jeffrey S. Pigati et al. ,Independent age estimates resolve the controversy of ancient human footprints at White Sands.Science382,73-75(2023).DOI:10.1126/science.adh5007</li> <li>Kuta, Sarah. “Metal Detectorist Unearths Bronze Age Jewelry in Swiss Carrot Field.” Smithsonian. 10/20/2023. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/bronze-age-jewelry-uncovered-in-carrot-field-in-switzerland-180983109/</li> <li>Kuta, Sarah. “New U.S. Quarter Honors Maria Tallchief, America’s First Prima Ballerina.” Smithsonian. 11/3/2023. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/osage-ballerina-maria-tallchief-featured-on-the-us-quarter-180983186/</li> <li>Lawson-Tancred, Jo. “How a Scottish Schoolboy Digging for Potatoes Uncovered a Trove of Egyptian Antiquities.” Artnet News. 11/20/2023. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/school-boy-digging-for-potatoes-finds-egyptian-antiquities-2396736</li> <li>Lawson-Tancred, Jo. “How Do You Make $191,000 From a $4 Painting? You Don’t.” ArtNet. 11/29/2023. https://news.artnet.com/market/nc-wyeth-thrift-store-painting-didnt-sell-2400888</li> <li>Lisbeth M. Imer et al, A lady of leadership: 3D-scanning of runestones in search of Queen Thyra and the Jelling Dynasty, Antiquity (2023). DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2023.108</li> <li>Martin, Nick. “The White Sands discovery only confirms what Indigenous people have said all along.” High Country News. 9/24/2021. https://www.hcn.org/issues/53.11/indigenous-affairs-archaeology-the-white-sands-discovery-only-confirms-what-indigenous-people-have-said-all-along</li> <li>Matthew R. Bennett et al. ,Evidence of humans in North America during the Last Glacial Maximum.Science373,1528-1531(2021).DOI:10.1126/science.abg7586</li> <li>Morcom Thomas and Helen Gittos. “The Cerne Giant in Its Early Medieval Context.” Speculum. Vol. 99, No. 1. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/727992#_i9</li> <li>Nowakowski, Teresa. “New Memorial Honors Victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.” Smithsonian. 10/25/2023. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-memorial-honors-the-victims-of-the-triangle-shirtwaist-factory-fire-180983081/</li> <li>Olaya, Vicente. “The Roman well-cleaner who lost a sandal 2,000 years ago in Spain.” El Pais. 10/17/2023. https://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-10-17/the-roman-well-cleaner-who-lost-a-sandal-2000-years-ago-in-spain.html</li> <li>Paterson, Colin. “Shakespeare found, claims Norfolk theatre.” BBC. 10/4/2023. https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-67007980</li> <li>Reed, Betsy. “New Mexico footprints are oldest sign of humans in Americas, research shows.” The Guardian. 10/6/2023. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/oct/06/footprints-humans-americas-oldest-sign-new-mexico</li> <li>Richard E. Bevins et al, The Stonehenge Altar Stone was probably not sourced from the Old Red Sandstone of the Anglo-Welsh Basin: Time to broaden our geographic and stratigraphic horizons?, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2023.104215</li> <li>Schrader, Adam. “Hundreds of Artifacts Stolen From the British Museum May Have Been Sold for Scrap.” ArtNet. 12/12/2023. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/british-museum-
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