“He ketched a frog one day, and took him home, and said he cal’lated to educate him; and so he never done nothing for three months but set in his back yard and learn that frog to jump.” Simon Wheeler inThe Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County. Mark Twain. his is North America’s largest frog averaging […]
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Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it. —Henry David Thoreau Moose are the largest North American ungulate, or within the deer family. Adults stand 4.5 – 6.9 feet at the shoulder, which is about a
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Also known as the common puffin the Atlantic puffin ranges from Main to the British Isles and north to Norway and Newfoundland. It breeds in Iceland, Norway, Greenland, south to Maine and on numerous Atlantic islands. Puffins are in the Alcidae, or auk family, that includes guillemots, auks, murrelets, auklets, puffins, and the razorbill. The Atlantic
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Heigh ho! sing heigh ho! unto the green holly:Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly:Then, heigh ho, the holly!This life is most jolly.As You Like It. William Shakespeare American holly is a medium-sized, evergreen, broad-leaved tree of the east coast of the U.S. extending from southern N.J. through the coastal states of the southeastern
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This has no digestive organs, and gets no food but from the fire, in which it constantly renews its scaly skin. The salamander, which renews its scaly skin in the fire,—for virtue —Leonardo da Vinci This is a common California salamander with a wide distribution that extends along the coast from Baja California through southern CA
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