Questions looking to find the name of a specific species of organism. Please include as much information as possible on habitat, behaviour and ideally images.
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Do forever-living organisms exist?
Do organisms exist that are able to live indefinitely if they are not killed by external factors?
Under external factors I would consider things like predators and natural disaster but not illness by ...
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What is this marmot-like animal (Tigray, Ethiopia)?
I was searching what are the animals I frequently saw in the north of Ethiopia. I took some bad quality pictures.
For me it looked like a large squirrel, local people called it a rat, and on the ...
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What kind of arthropod/animal is this?
Can anyone identify this strange creature? I live in a very urban part of Montreal, Canada. It wasn't moving (seemed dead) and although the image is huge, it wasn't as big as it seems (a couple of ...
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Does anyone know what marsupial this is? [closed]
I know what this is a marsupial, but i'm not quite sure which one. Any thoughts?
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What is the name of the baboons that live in Saudi Arabia
In Saudi Arabia there are a lot of baboons in the mountain area. I would like to know what's the name of this specific baboons so I can read about them more:
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What will happen if cat becomes intelligent and develops a civilization? [closed]
How will it be different from ours? How can we imagine it?
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What kind of caterpillar is this?
I've made a photo using the reversed 58 mm lens and my cropped DSLR:
Could you please help? I really don't know where this came from.
I found it in Russia.
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What species of bird is on this coin? [closed]
What species of bird is depicted on this coin?
http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/citi/images/standard/WebLarge/WebImg_000100/139651_846511.jpg
Thanks in advance for your help!
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What kind of bird species is this?
Every now and then I got a glimpse of this bird which I'm pretty sure is not native to Northern Germany where I live. There are at least three of these birds around but I usually only see something ...
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Is this an Emperor Penguin or a King Penguin?
I have a book from Dorling Kindersley called Animal Encyclopedia (the German version that I have is called Das große Tierlexikon) with images from animals.
One is titled Emperor Penguin ...
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Small worm living in some kind of cocoon, what are these animals?
I am curious what animal is this. It is/lives inside some kind of cocoon, about 1 cm in length. They are attached to walls and to the ceiling, but sometimes they fall off. Inside the structure there ...
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An unexpected mushroom in my garden
My grandma is a great fan of mushrooms and knows quite a lot about them. About 10 years ago, she started throwing out mushroom remnants in one special place, in order to grow her own mushrooms. In ...
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Filamentous algae - what exactly am I looking at?
I have just taken some images with my light microscope at 400x of (what I think is) some form of filamentous algae from a local pond.
Now, I think I am looking at a single cell (centre) with some ...
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What's the name of this bird?
This morning I saw a bird that I have never seen before. Since it was quite big, I'm very interested in knowing its name.
The bird was quite big, at least 2-3 times of a common blackbird. The wings ...
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What is this crow eating, and is it a common part of the corvid diet?
Here's a picture (by Rob Curtis) of a crow carrying and eating the corpse of what looks a bit like a small hawk or falcon:
Other pictures clearly show the crow is eating the dead bird. This image ...
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What kind of fruit is this?
Just spotted this fruit while walking to school. It's the size of a small coin.The taste is almost sour and tangy and somewhat sweet (I only tried one of them and very little of it). I admit, ...
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What is the species of these mushrooms?
The mushrooms are gilled with a light-brown cap. The stem is widened to the base.
What species is it? Is it considered edible?
They are found in mixed forest in Moscow, Russia. They grow in the ...
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Identify hideous large flying insects on my screen door in Albuquerque [closed]
Last night and tonight, I heard things bumping into the side of my
house (sounded like small rocks).
Last night, I saw some creatures flying around, but didn't get a good
look.
Tonight, there ...
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What are the white dots on the tree in this photo?
Today in Kongens Have, I noticed a lot of white dots on bark of trees. There are plenty of them, and they were usually on 'bottom' side of branches. Does anyone know what this could be?
I took a ...
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Can someone identify this bird?
We recently found a nest in the back garden and a little bird inside. Can you help us identify it? The nest is quite small like the bird so we are wondering whether this is the parent or a baby chick. ...
