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Wild Things:
Life as We Know It
Whale of a comeback, dancing cockatoos, sticky bees, and waltzing pond scum
By Amanda Bensen, Joseph Caputo, T.A. Frail, Laura Helmuth and Abigail Tucker
Smithsonian magazine, July 2009
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(Mats Thulin)
Where in the world could millions of 20-foot-tall trees flourish across an area larger than Delaware without scientists noticing them? In remote and war-torn hills between Ethiopia and Somalia. An Uppsala University botanist recently documented, for the first time, Acacia fumosa, a common tree with gray bark and pink flowers. More than 2,000 new species of flowering plants are described worldwide each year, but few are this conspicuous and widespread.
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Snowball the cockatoo bobs his head and lifts his leg to the beats of the Backstreet Boys' "Everbody"
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Everyone in our flock LOVES SNOWBALL!!
Posted by Chris on July 8,2009 | 02:47PM
How can something be single-celled and made out of a colony of cells(multi-cellular)?
Posted by Ben on July 13,2009 | 07:14AM
I've sent Snowball dancing to my 2 greatgranddaughters and they loved him.
Posted by Elaine B on August 12,2009 | 08:32PM