The ocelot may look like a slightly wilder version of a domesticated tabby cat, but they are three times the size of house cats, much fiercer and, though abundant in some areas, still endangered.
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History has taught us that Harriet Tubman was a conductor for slaves on the Underground Railroad to freedom. But she had a second career as a Union spy and was also a champion for the elderly.
You've probably never seen one, but it looks like a waterbed in your yard. And trust us, if you do see one, you'll have an impulse to pop it.
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Just what is it that makes us unable to look away from da Vinci's Mona Lisa?
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"The distribution of brown recluses in the U.S. is a little like a rain cloud over the midwest. If you're standing in the center of the storm — in Kansas or Oklahoma — you're going to get very wet, a lot of water droplets are going to hit you. If you're standing at the edge of the thunder shower in Georgia, the droplets will be much fewer and farther between." — Richard Vetter, Author and Retired Entomologist, University of California Riverside
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