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What’s a red-necked pademelon (Thylogale thetis)? A relative to kangaroos and wallabies, it’s a marsupial species that lives in parts of eastern Australia. The shy critter inhabits forests, grassland, or scrub, where it forages for grass, roots, and leaves at, typically during the night. Feeding during darker hours helps conceal this animal from predators like dingos and raptors.
Photo: Donald Hobern, CC BY 2.0, flickr
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“Paint me, like one of your”… storks? Found across Pakistan, Thailand, Nepal, Vietnam, China, and India, the Painted Stork (Mycteria leucocephala) makes its home in wetland habitats like marshes, ponds, or flooded fields where it can forage for fish. Parents share responsibilities in incubating eggs and feeding hatchlings. But chicks are often easy targets for predators like tigers, crocodiles, and eagles. As a defense mechanism, they vomit and play dead to discourage the hunter! 🤢☠️
Photo: J.M.Garg, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
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It’s time for another round of ! This time, we’re asking you to draw your favorite fall scene at the Museum.🍁
Fun fact: The 43 dioramas in the Hall of North American Mammals were designed to re-create real places—virtual field trips to far-flung locations. Pick one of the following October-themed dioramas to paint, draw, or sketch: the bison, the white-tailed deer, or the opossum and the gray fox. See our Instagram Story for links to more images.🎨
Submit your artwork by 9 am EDT on Tuesday (10/13) with the tag . We’ll repost your masterpieces! Submissions from kiddos are also encouraged.💫
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Did you know? The siamang (Symphalangus syndactylus) is the largest of the gibbon species, weighing as much as 26 pounds (12 kilograms). This tree-living gibbon is an expert swinger built for moving from branch to branch. And that pouch on its throat? It’s a sound box for amplifying its call and can be as large as a human head! This primate lives in the tropical forests of Southeast Asia, where it munches on fruit, leaves, insects, bird eggs, and small vertebrates.
Photo: Valerie, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, flickr
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Meet the Sultan Tit (Melanochlora sultanea)! This “royal” species is found in parts of Southeast Asia, including Myanmar, Nepal, and Vietnam. It lives in forests, where it feeds on invertebrates like grasshoppers and mantids. Both males and females have brilliant yellow crests, so how can you distinguish between the two? The dark plumage on a female is more of an olive-brown color, while a males’ is more black.
Photo: Tom Tarrant, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0, flickr
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Meet the guanaco (Lama guanicoe)! It’s a member of the family Camelidae, which includes camels and llamas. This adaptable South American native can be found across the continent, living in a variety of habitats with its herd, including in deserts and forests. The main predator it has to watch out for? The puma. But living in a group helps the guanaco survive. When a predator approaches, one guanaco will raise the alarm to warn the rest of the group, so individuals can spend more time grazing and less time watching for potential foes.
Photo: Thomas Fuhrmann, CC-BY-SA-4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Jan 01 1970 GMT00:33
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Who needs trousers when you have legs as vibrant as these! Meet the red-shanked douc (Pygathrix nemaeus), often considered one of the most colorful monkeys around. This arboreal critter can be spotted in the forests of Cambodia and Vietnam. It’s a picky eater that closely inspects food, such as fruit and leaves, before consumption. What does it look for in a meal? Unripe fruit is preferred, along with younger leaves, which are easier to digest than older ones.
Photo: Bjørn Christian Tørrissen, CC-BY-SA-3.0, Wikimedia Commons
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If you’re not a fan of spiders, then this might be the bird for you! The Streaked Spiderhunter (Arachnothera magna) is native to parts of Southeast Asia, such as Vietnam and Cambodia, where it lives in forest habitats. As its name suggests, a main part of its diet includes spiders. It forages in the trees looking for spiders to pluck from their webs—and even uses the webbing to help sew its nest together! Another staple in its diet is nectar; its long narrow bill helps it reach the sweet stuff deep inside flowers.
Photo: Tareq's Photography, CC-BY-SA-4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Jan 01 1970 GMT00:33
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Not everyone can pull off a purple “mohawk” like the Purple-crested Turaco (Tauraco porphyreolophus) can. This African native can be found in woodland and forest habitats throughout parts of the continent’s southeastern region, such as Kenya, Tanzania, and Mozambique. It’s frugivorous, meaning it mainly feeds on fruit. One of its favorite snacks is from the ficus tree!
Photo: Vince Smith, CC BY 2.0, flickr
Jan 01 1970 GMT00:33
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It’s time for ! Meet Edmontonia rugosidens, one of the tank-like ankylosaurs that lived in the late Cretaceous period some 75 million years ago. Ankylosaurs were four-legged, plant-eating ornithischians whose short, massive bodies were covered with small bones set in a flexible skin. The ankylosaurs were the most completely armored of all the dinosaurs—some even sported spikes along the side of the body and a club at the end of the tail! This well-preserved specimen of Edmontonia was found in Alberta, Canada and is positioned with an upright posture, not with the sprawling, lizardlike limb posture it was once thought to have. See it up close in the Museum’s Hall of Ornithischian Dinosaurs!
Photo: D. Finnin/ © AMNH
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What better way to kick off the month of October than with a pumpkin fact? Did you know? Pumpkins are fruits. The flowering plants that bear pumpkins are native to the Americas and are part of the family that includes watermelon, cucumbers, and zucchini. As angiosperms, pumpkin plants rely heavily on insects like bees to help transfer pollen from male flowers to female flowers. Pumpkins come in all sizes—according to the Guinness World Records, the heaviest one to date was 2,624.6 pounds (1,190.5 kilograms)!
Photo: Linnaea Mallette, Needpix
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Named for J. R. R. Tolkien’s fearsome dragon Smaug from the 1937 novel The Hobbit, the armored lizard (Smaug giganteus) has protective plates on its back but a soft underbelly. Like its relatives in the family Cordylidae, it has bony plates called osteoderms embedded in its skin for protection. Unlike Tolkien’s dragon, it is less than 16 inches (40 centimeters) long. 🐉
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It’s time for ! Meet Edmontonia rugosidens, one of the tank-like ankylosaurs that lived in the late Cretaceous period some 75 million years ago. Ankylosaurs were four-legged, plant-eating ornithischians whose short, massive bodies were covered with small bones set in a flexible skin. The ankylosaurs were the most completely armored of all the dinosaurs—some even sported spikes along the side of the body and a club at the end of the tail! This well-preserved specimen of Edmontonia was found in Alberta, Canada and is positioned with an upright posture, not with the sprawling, lizardlike limb posture it was once thought to have. See it up close in the Museum’s Hall of Ornithischian Dinosaurs!
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What better way to kick off the month of October than with a pumpkin fact? Did you know? Pumpkins are fruits. The flowering plants that bear pumpkins are native to the Americas and are part of the family that includes watermelon, cucumbers, and zucchini. As angiosperms, pumpkin plants rely heavily on insects like bees to help transfer pollen from male flowers to female flowers. Pumpkins come in all sizes—according to the Guinness World Records, the heaviest one to date was 2,624.6 pounds (1,190.5 kilograms)!
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It’s time for another round of ! This time, we’re asking you to draw your favorite fall scene at the Museum.🍁
Fun fact: The 43 dioramas in the Hall of North American Mammals were designed to re-create real places—virtual field trips to far-flung locations. Pick one of the following October-themed dioramas to paint, draw, or sketch: the bison, the white-tailed deer, or the opossum and the gray fox. See our Instagram Story for links to more images.🎨
Submit your artwork by 9 am EDT on Tuesday (10/13) with the tag . We’ll repost your masterpieces! Submissions from kiddos are also encouraged.💫 analysis
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What better way to kick off the month of October than with a pumpkin fact? Did you know? Pumpkins are fruits. The flowering plants that bear pumpkins are native to the Americas and are part of the family that includes watermelon, cucumbers, and zucchini. As angiosperms, pumpkin plants rely heavily on insects like bees to help transfer pollen from male flowers to female flowers. Pumpkins come in all sizes—according to the Guinness World Records, the heaviest one to date was 2,624.6 pounds (1,190.5 kilograms)!
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Meet the Sultan Tit (Melanochlora sultanea)! This “royal” species is found in parts of Southeast Asia, including Myanmar, Nepal, and Vietnam. It lives in forests, where it feeds on invertebrates like grasshoppers and mantids. Both males and females have brilliant yellow crests, so how can you distinguish between the two? The dark plumage on a female is more of an olive-brown color, while a males’ is more black.
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Oct 02 2020 GMT22:09
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It’s time for ! Meet Edmontonia rugosidens, one of the tank-like ankylosaurs that lived in the late Cretaceous period some 75 million years ago. Ankylosaurs were four-legged, plant-eating ornithischians whose short, massive bodies were covered with small bones set in a flexible skin. The ankylosaurs were the most completely armored of all the dinosaurs—some even sported spikes along the side of the body and a club at the end of the tail! This well-preserved specimen of Edmontonia was found in Alberta, Canada and is positioned with an upright posture, not with the sprawling, lizardlike limb posture it was once thought to have. See it up close in the Museum’s Hall of Ornithischian Dinosaurs!
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