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• Mission: Impossible – the Ground Beetles

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  Originally published on Audubon Guides on September 4th, 2012 My mother, a park ranger, once held out a cone from an unknown tree and asked a state forester if he knew which tree it came from. “Some kinda conifer”, he answered, as if that was sufficient. He wasn’t wrong. The cone [...]
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• What Not To Lick – The Southern Toad

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  Originally published on Audubon Guides on October 8th, 2012 I had a dream about the game show Family Feud the other night. The one hosted by Richard Dawson, the guy that kissed all of the ladies. He said “One hundred people surveyed, top five answers on the board. Here’s the question: name me something you [...]
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• Wishful Thinking - the Florida Panther

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  Originally published on Audubon Guides on September 24th, 2012 Twenty seven squirrel monkeys lived on an island at the Florida Monkey Sanctuary in Venice, Florida. They had no interest in swimming to freedom. There was no land close enough on the other side of the encircling moat that offered a chance to leap to. They [...]
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• Catch Me If You Can – The American Oystercatcher

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  Originally published on Audubon Guides on October 1st, 2012 Catching an oyster only seems difficult to me if you’re tossing one around with your kid in your backyard. For a predator the difficulty is not chasing one down but prying one apart once they’ve located it. The two sides of the bivalve’s shell are bound [...]
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• Flip Flop - the Coconut Palm

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  Originally published on Audubon Guides on September 17th, 2012 One of the quickest ways to make an enemy of a native Floridian is to suggest that the Coconut Palm (Cocos nucifera) is not native to Florida. The fastest way is to drive slowly in the fast lane. The iconic palm is found throughout [...]
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• When in Drought – The Roseate Spoonbill

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  Originally published on Audubon Guides on September 10th, 2012 I could be a meteorologist in Florida. In May the weather forecast is a chance of rain through November. The rainy season coincides with the tropical storm season. A nice afternoon rain shower is par for the course on any given day. Lake Trafford is [...]
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• Hurriconundrum - The White Ibis

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  Originally published on Audubon Guides on August 25th, 2012 On Sunday, August 26th, Tropical Storm Isaac loomed 150 miles southwest of me in the Gulf of Mexico. For five days, hurricane trackers had forecast the storm’s position and strength and offered suggestions of where it might hit. Flooding, storm surges and high winds are a [...]
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• Walking on Sunshine – The Sunray Venus

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  Originally published on Audubon Guides on August 20th, 2012 The gulf coast beaches of Florida are famed for the amazing seashells that wash ashore. Scallops, conchs, whelks, pen shells, turkey wings and a myriad of others become treasures to tourists and locals who are no doubt entranced by the variety of colors and shapes [...]
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• Fence Me In

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  Originally published on Audubon Guides on August 13th, 2012 Traveling across the Everglades, a motorist will see signs that caution “panther crossing”, and “wildlife on roadway”. Speed limits are reduced at night to protect nocturnal species. Hundreds of miles of fences stretch from one side of the state to the other. Wildlife is often [...]
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• Fence Me In

  Originally published on Audubon Guides on August 13th, 2012 Traveling across the Everglades, a motorist will see signs that caution “panther crossing”, and “wildlife on roadway”. Speed limits are reduced at night to protect nocturnal species. Hundreds of miles of fences stretch from one side of the state to the other. Wildlife is often [...]
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