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No. 01
The Great Egret doesn't wash. It powders.
Great Egret
No. 02
The Acorn Woodpecker doesn't store food. It engineers a granary.
Acorn Woodpecker
No. 03
This bird doesn't react to winter. It predicts it.
White-tailed Ptarmigan
No. 04
Where is the ocean most alive?
Albatross · Dimethyl Sulfide
No. 05
Every waterbird stayed dry. The Anhinga chose to get wet.
Anhinga
No. 06
This bird doesn't hunt by sight. It hunts by touch.
Roseate Spoonbill
No. 07
This is not skin. It is 400 million years of armor.
Shark
No. 08
This bird lands once a year. It sleeps in the sky.
Common Swift
No. 09
Born female. Later male.
Humphead Wrasse
No. 10
The first breath is out.
Whale
No. 11
The breath gives it away.
Whale
No. 12
A new set of antlers. Every year.
Caribou
No. 13
The Arctic reinvented a bear.
Polar Bear
No. 14
How is that even possible?
Mountain Goat
No. 15
Why is its mouth always open?
Moray Eel
No. 16
This fish walks.
Epaulette Shark
No. 17
Minutes after sunset.
Mandarin Fish
No. 18
Everything changes.
Black Bear
No. 19
The forest has another map.
Black Bear
No. 20
It doesn't hunt. It chooses who to follow.
Remora
No. 21
It didn't hide. It disappeared.
Pygmy Seahorse
No. 22
Its shell is a submarine.
Chambered Nautilus
No. 23
The bill that became a radiator.
Toco Toucan
No. 24
How does a tail become a rattle?
Rattlesnake
No. 25
When the oceans created giants.
Blue Whale

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