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Chacoan peccary

The Chacoan Peccary

  • 26 August, 2024
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Daily Critter Facts, Land Mammal Facts, Ungulate Facts
The Chacoan peccary, aka tagua, can be found in Argentina, Bolivia, and the Gran Chaco of Paraguay. They are the only extant species of the genus Catagonus. Sadly, these critters face the threats of habitat loss and destruction
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plains zebra

The Plains Zebra

  • 23 August, 2024
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Daily Critter Facts, Land Mammal Facts, Ungulate Facts
The plains zebra is the most geographically widespread species of zebra. There are 6 subspecies, or clines currently recognized. They suffer fragmentation throughout their range of southern to eastern Africa, south of the
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mona monkey

The Mona Monkey

  • 22 August, 2024
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Daily Critter Facts, Land Mammal Facts, Primate Facts
The mona monkey is an Old World (those from Africa & Asia) primate that dwells in western Africa from Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, & western Cameroon. There are 4 recognized subspecies of these monkeys: the mona monkey,
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northern red snapper

The Northern Red Snapper

  • 21 August, 2024
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Daily Critter Facts, Fish Facts
The northern red snapper is a species of marine ray-finned fish. They inhabit the coastal waters of the western Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea, and the Gulf of Mexico. They can often be found amongst reef systems.
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São Tomé ibis

The São Tomé Ibis

  • 20 August, 2024
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The São Tomé ibis, aka dwarf olive ibis or the dwarf ibis, hails from São Tomé off the western coast of Central Africa in the Gulf of Guinea. The dwarf ibis is 1 of 10 birds on São Tomé that are threatened with extinction.
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grey-faced sengi

The Grey-Faced Sengi

  • 19 August, 2024
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Daily Critter Facts, Land Mammal Facts
The grey-faced sengi may look like a rodent, but they are actually more closely related to elephants, manatees, aardvarks, and hyraxes. These critters are a species of elephant shrew, and are found in the Udzungwa Mountains of
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greater blue-eared glossy starling

The Greater Blue-Eared Glossy Starling

  • 16 August, 2024
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Bird Facts, Daily Critter Facts
The greater blue-eared glossy starling, aka greater blue-eared starling, is a rather common species of open woodland bird that hails from Africa; more specifically Senegal on east to Ethiopia, south through eastern Africa,
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beira

The Dainty Beira

  • 15 August, 2024
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Daily Critter Facts, Land Mammal Facts, Ungulate Facts
The beira is a small species of antelope that dwells in the arid regions of the Horn of Africa. These diminutive antelopes prefer to dwell among stony and/or rocky slopes and hillsides, dry grassland that is interspersed with
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The Antarctic Shag

  • 14 August, 2024
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Bird Facts, Daily Critter Facts
The Antarctic shag, aka Antarctic cormorant, imperial cormorant, king cormorant, imperial shag, or blue-eyed shag, is the only cormorant found in the Antarctic. Even though they face the threats of hunting; trapping; overfishing;
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spectacled porpoise

The Spectacled Porpoise

  • 13 August, 2024
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Daily Critter Facts, Porpoise Facts, Sea Mammal Facts
The spectacled porpoise is a small to medium sized, very understudied porpoise species indigenous to the temperate, sub-Antarctic, and Antarctic waters of the Southern Ocean. The reason they are so poorly studied is due
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