Picking common and scientific names is a puzzle of taxonomy, and sometimes we end up naming huge frogs “Mountain Chickens”. So, let’s figure out this puzzle.

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Jackrabbits
http://on.natgeo.com/1fRYLwW
http://bit.ly/2cGWbjG
http://bit.ly/1wdL8uh
http://bit.ly/2crWcoL
http://bit.ly/2cGVve7
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http://bit.ly/2cGSxGJ
http://bit.ly/2d5YY18
http://bit.ly/2cZQvxN
http://bit.ly/2dh7ttH
Mountain Goats
http://on.natgeo.com/2cGWN92
http://bit.ly/2crWWu6
http://bit.ly/2d8LgiJ
http://bit.ly/2cX1MAk
http://bit.ly/2dh7lu6
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http://bit.ly/2d8LFBw
Taxonomy
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Mountain Lions
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http://bit.ly/2bdcm72
http://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Felidae/
http://www.mountainlion.org/CAL_ch1.asp
http://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Puma_concolor/
http://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Panthera_leo/

Stalk on the Wild Side: the Eastern Cougar


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http://bit.ly/2crXaRL
http://bit.ly/2cGXA9X
http://bit.ly/2cPe63x

Flying Lemurs
http://eol.org/pages/1040858/details
http://bit.ly/2crWADC
http://bit.ly/2crXakY
http://bit.ly/2crWPi4
http://bit.ly/2cNXBXp
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http://bit.ly/2cFfS8c
http://bit.ly/2ckjpG4

King Cobra
http://on.natgeo.com/1rZZo8k
http://bit.ly/2dh8Usf
http://bit.ly/1RBgUxh
http://bit.ly/2ckkFsH
http://bit.ly/2cATY43
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Electric Eels
http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/fish/electric-eel/
https://www.fws.gov/northeast/americaneel/
http://tpwd.texas.gov/huntwild/wild/species/ameel/
https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/56433
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How Evolution Gave Some Fish Their Electric Powers


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http://bit.ly/2d5WXlu
http://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Anguilla_rostrata/
http://bit.ly/2ckikxR
http://bit.ly/2cRsaZ4

Mantis Shrimp
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http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/arthropoda/crustacea/malacostraca/eumalacostraca/stomatopoda.html

Absurd Creature of the Week: Ferocious, Fearless Mantis Shrimp Is the Honey Badger of the Sea


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http://oceana.org/marine-life/cephalopods-crustaceans-other-shellfish/white-shrimp
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http://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Malacostraca/

7 Animals That Aren’t What We Call Them

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