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Recent Examples of insectivoreHere’s how to manage groundhogs Moles Moles are insectivores, tunneling to find food.—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 18 Dec. 2024 Among the species declines that have led to billions fewer birds in North America over the last half-century, grassland birds and aerial insectivores have been hit especially hard, having lost many bugs that once fed them.—Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 22 Sep. 2024 Belonging to the same group of mammals as sloths and anteaters, armadillos are voracious insectivores that eat large numbers of beetles, grubs, ants, termites, and other insects, grabbing them with their sticky tongues.—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 18 Sep. 2024 These gregarious insectivores existed only in a hectare of mossy wetlands near the waterfalls of the Kihansi River, soaking up the high humidity from the constant mist.—Byerik Stokstad, science.org, 31 July 2024 These flying insectivores winter in South America and travel 7,000 miles to nest, including in Michigan.—Jennifer Dixon, Detroit Free Press, 28 Mar. 2024 Most bats are insectivores that eat mosquitoes and other agricultural pests, or act as pollinators and seed spreaders.—Emily Mullin, WIRED, 31 Oct. 2023 This year, Handa said there was a potential delay in insect production due to sustaining cooler temperatures, which could have an impact on the breeding schedule of insectivores, the birds that eat bugs.—Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2023 The specific patterns, and the earliest mammals' relatively small size, are reminiscent of modern small insectivores—which use quick bites and a dental tool kit of puncturing and crushing teeth to bust through arthropod carapaces.—Riley Black, Scientific American, 28 June 2023
Cutting-edge visual effects create a world of talking photorealistic animals that might as well be a nature documentary, and attention is paid to livening up the humor, with Billy Eichner’s funny, overdramatic meerkat Timon showing up everybody, including Beyoncé.
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Brian Truitt,
USA TODAY,
22 Mar. 2025
While the world celebrates the many ways trees and forests help sustain human and animal life, deforestation poses a significant threat to these vital ecosystems, both in the United States and abroad.
On the way, Elliott hits a baby unicorn with his rental SUV, wounding it, and Ridley touches its horn and forms a trippy spiritual connection with the creature.
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Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
29 Mar. 2025
See it In icy waters near the South Sandwich Islands, researchers have discovered a fascinating creature known as a pycnogonid, or sea spider.
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Stories by Real-Time news team, with AI summarization,
Miami Herald,
28 Mar. 2025
Catch up quick: The legendary little beastie first came to New Orleans by way of the Terrebonne Parish animal shelter.
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Chelsea Brasted,
Axios,
11 Feb. 2025
But regardless of whether the beastie predicts six more weeks of winter or holds out the promise of an early Spring, next week should bring a respite of warmer weather.
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