Oct, 14

Science Discovery

Montgomery Tanner


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http://thies-times.com/serpentryan/lifelist/Snakes/EasternGarterSnake.html

Garter snake is the common name given to harmless, small-to medium-sized snakes belonging to the genus Thamnophis. Thamnophis is another name for a ribbonback garter snake. They are regularly found in North America, they can be found from the Sub Artic plains of Canada to Central America. The garter snake is the state reptile of Massachusetts.





Oct, 20

Montgomery Tanner

Science Discovery

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http://mslenahan.edublogs.org/2009/03/11/red-tailed-hawk-nesting-in-strange-place/

The red-tailed hawk is a bird of pray,one of three species expression known in the United States as the "chickenhawk," though it never realy preys on regular sized chickens. It breeds throughout most of North America, from western Alaska and northern Canadota

as far south as Panama and the West Indies, and is one of the most common to buzzards in North America. Red-tailed hawks can acomidate to all the biomes within their range. There are fourteen recognized subspecies, which vary in appearance and range. It is one of the largest members of the genus buzzards in North America, typically weighing from 690 to 1,600 g and measuring 45–65 cm in length, with a wingspan from 110–145 cm.

Oct,27

Montgomery Tanner

Science discovery



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http://animalia-life.com/baboon.html

Baboons are African and Arabian old world monkeys. Part of the subfamily copithecinae. The five species are some of the largest members of the primat order; only the mandrill gelada and the drill are larger. Previously, the closely related and the two species (mandrill and drill) of genus mandrillus were grouped in the same genus, and these old world monkeys.