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muskellunge

The Predatory Muskellunge

  • 1 October, 2025
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Daily Critter Facts, Fish Facts
The muskellunge, aka muskie, musky, ski, or lunge, is the largest predatory species of pike in North America. Being the largest pike also has its disadvantages, too. These fish are threatened by habitat loss and destruction at the hands of
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sharp-tailed grouse

The Sharp-Tailed Grouse

  • 30 September, 2025
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Bird Facts, Daily Critter Facts
The sharp-tailed grouse, aka sharptail grouse or fire grouse, is a mid-sized prairie grouse that hails from Alaska, Canada, and the United States. Sans hunting, trapping, and habitat loss, these grouse are not only listed as
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Chinese ferret-badger

The Chinese Ferret-Badger

  • 29 September, 2025
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Daily Critter Facts, Land Mammal Facts, Mustelid Facts
The Chinese ferret-badger, aka small-toothed ferret-badger, hails from southeast Asia. These critters prefer grasslands, open forests, and tropical rainforests. They are threatened by hunting, for their meat; and trapping, for their fur
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Atlantic petrel

The Atlantic Petrel

  • 26 September, 2025
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Bird Facts, Daily Critter Facts
The Atlantic petrel is a gadfly petrel endemic to the South Atlantic Ocean. Gadly petrels are so named due to their speedy, weaving flight, almost as if evading gadflies (horse flies). These birds face the threats of
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Blainville's beaked whale

The Blainville’s Beaked Whale

  • 25 September, 2025
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Bird Facts, Daily Critter Facts
The Blainville’s beaked whale, aka dense-beaked whale, is thought to be the widest ranging of the mesoplodont whales (toothed whales). They dwell in tropical and warm waters in all the world’s oceans. These whales face the threats of
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short-eared rock-wallaby

The Short-Eared Rock-Wallaby

  • 24 September, 2025
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Daily Critter Facts, Land Mammal Facts, Marsupial Facts
The short-eared rock-wallaby dwells in northern Australia, in the northernmost parts of the Northern Territory, as well as in Western Australia. These wallabies face the threats of habitat loss and destruction at the hands of
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western spotted skunk

The Western Spotted Skunk

  • 23 September, 2025
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Daily Critter Facts, Land Mammal Facts, Mustelid Facts
The western spotted skunk, like other skunks, has a pair of large musk glands that open just inside the anus, and which can spray their contents through a muscular contraction. These skunks face the threats of vehicle strike
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buff-tailed bumblebee

The Buff-Tailed Bumblebee

  • 22 September, 2025
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Arthropod Facts, Daily Critter Facts, Insect Facts
The buff-tailed bumblebee, aka large earth bumblebee, can be found in Europe, northern Africa, and western Asia. They are 1 of the main species used in greenhouse pollination. Therefore, they can be found in many foreign locales.
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Tahiti monarch

The Tahiti Monarch

  • 19 September, 2025
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Bird Facts, Daily Critter Facts
The Tahiti monarch, aka Tahiti flycatcher, is an increasingly rare sight to see in Tahiti, the largest island in French Polynesia. They are a species of bird in the monarch flycatcher family. Sadly, these birds face the threats of
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Sowerby's beaked whale

The Sowerby’s Beaked Whale

  • 18 September, 2025
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Daily Critter Facts, Sea Mammal Facts, Whale Facts
The Sowerby’s beaked whale, aka North Atlantic beaked whale or North Sea beaked whale, hales from the North Atlantic Ocean and can be spotted, with luck, off the shores of North America, Europe, and Africa.
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