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Animal Identification Trivia

#121 ${lang:macro__useroffline}$ Zoo

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Posted 27 May 2008 - 05:30 AM

It's what I care about

. Also "four" years of college for biology helps (at least with the more technical stuff, genetics and population bio and stuff). That and some things just get stuck in my head (scientific names and such, particularly if I know what the root words are/mean). Seven years of talking to people about all manner of animals and plants (both the public and other zoo people) hammers in a variety of details as well. Not to mention that many "details" are generalizable from one species I may know better to another that I can recognize (from training) as similar. And observation, lots and lots of observation drills things in too (this is why I can ID many butterflies while driving 60mph >_<). Basically it's just a whole lot of experience

, about 11 years total. If you think I'm impressive go talk to a bio professor

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I'm sure you're the same way with astrophysics

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We've been seeing a pair of these around the bird field at the zoo for a few weeks now. They like the old palm trees.

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Posted 27 May 2008 - 02:47 PM

Gah, I can't think of the name.
Red... headed woodpecker? :/

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I endorse stalking. :thumb:

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Posted 27 May 2008 - 03:15 PM

QUOTE (Zziggywolf5 @ May 27 2008, 10:47 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Gah, I can't think of the name.
Red... headed woodpecker? :/

Not quite

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#124 ${lang:macro__useroffline}$ Aaron

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Posted 27 May 2008 - 06:17 PM

Easy. That's a good ole' Red-bellied Woodpecker.

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Posted 27 May 2008 - 08:15 PM

This is frustrating. I have these woodpeckers eating from a feeder outside one of our windows. I should know this.

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I endorse stalking. :thumb:

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Posted 27 May 2008 - 08:49 PM

QUOTE (Aaron @ May 27 2008, 01:17 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Easy. That's a good ole' Red-bellied Woodpecker.

Yep. Your turn.

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Posted 28 May 2008 - 01:18 AM

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Posted 28 May 2008 - 03:52 AM

copperhead

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Posted 28 May 2008 - 07:41 PM

Yep. Pretty sure it was one of these I almost stepped on this weekend! I didn't have a field guide with me, but it didn't look like a Water Snake. The poor guy was sitting on a rock in the creek with his side ripped open. Interestingly, there was a dead fish right by him.

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Posted 28 May 2008 - 11:00 PM

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Posted 29 May 2008 - 04:41 PM

I KNOW I've seen that animal before, but I'll be darned if I can recall it right now.

#: ssh God@Heaven.org
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/God> rm *

The BEST error message ever: "Cowardly refusing to create an empty archive."

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Posted 30 May 2008 - 10:24 PM

Same. Kind of looks like a Kinkajou.

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Posted 12 June 2008 - 11:34 AM

:: pokes the thread back into existence::

Not trying to change the question, I just found this picture and it seemed fitting for here.

#: ssh God@Heaven.org
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The BEST error message ever: "Cowardly refusing to create an empty archive."

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Posted 17 September 2008 - 02:45 AM

*Revived*

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Posted 17 September 2008 - 03:16 AM

I kind of forgot about this. . . my last one was a jaguarundi.

That looks like a mite of some sort.

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