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Are otters playful animals? | yes |
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Are otters totem animals? | Yes |
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Are otters very active? | yes |
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Can otters survive in cold water? | yes |
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Do otters live in water? | Yes. |
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Do sea otters have long muscular tails? | no |
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Do sea otters live along the Pacific coast? | Yes |
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Does otter give birth or lay egg? | give birth |
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Does the giant otter inhabit South Africa? | no |
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Have most otters fish as the primary item in their diet , supplemented by frogs , crayfish and crabs ? | yes |
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How are otters playful animals? | The slide down snowy slopes, apparently for sheer enjoyment. |
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How do otters keep themselves warm without blubber? | A layer of air trapped in their fur. |
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How do sea otters insulate themselves? | As with other species of otter, they rely on a layer of air trapped in their fur, which they keep topped up by blowing into the fur from their mouths. |
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How many species and genera does otter have? | 13 species and 7 genera |
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How many species of otter are there? | 13 |
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How much do sea otters weigh? | 30 kg (about 65 pounds) |
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Is an otter 's den called a holt ? | yes |
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Is it true that otters eat a variety of fish? | yes |
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Is otter a kind of mammal? | Yes. |
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Is the myth of Otter 's Ransom the starting point of the Volsunga saga ? | yes |
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Sea otters eat what? | Shellfish and other invertebrates |
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What animals are related to otters? | weasels, polecats, and badgers |
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What do river otters eat? | River otters eat a variety of fish and shellfish, as well as small land mammals and birds. |
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What drives sea otter almost to extinction? | Sea otters have some 200,000 hairs per square cm of skin, a rich fur for which humans hunted them almost to extinction. |
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What is one of the challenges of re-establishing a population of Eurasian otters in the UK? | Roadkill deaths have become one of the significant threats to the success of their re-establishment. |
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What is the primary item in an otter's diet? | Fish. |
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Where do sea otters live? | Sea otters (Enhydra lutris) live along the Pacific coast of North America. |
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Where does the word "otter" derive from? | The word "otter" derives from the Old English word otr, otor or oter. This and cognate words in other Indo-European languages ultimately stem from a root which also gave rise to the English words "water", "wet" and "winter". |
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Why are sea otters nearly extinct? | Sea otters have some 200,000 hairs per square cm of skin, a rich fur for which humans hunted them |
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Why is the giant otter becoming increasingly rare? | poaching, habitat loss, and the use of mercury in illegal alluvial gold mining |
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Why otters are considered as totem animals? | The time of year associated with this is also associated with the Aquarius sign of the Zodiac, through which the sun passes January 20-February 19. |
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Are all penguins countershaded? | Yes |
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Are penguins afraid of humans? | no |
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Are penguins astonishingly agile? | In the water they are. |
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Are penguins at risk? | Yes |
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Are penguins birds? | yes |
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Are penguins considered "higher waterbirds"? | yes |
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Can larger penguins dive deep in case of need ? | Yes |
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Do penguins feed on krill? | yes |
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Do penguins have a better than average sense of hearing for birds? | yes |
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Do penguins live almost exclusively in the Southern Hemisphere? | yes |
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Have penguins an average sense of hearing for birds ? | Yes |
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How are Isabelline penguins different from most penguins? | Because they are born with brown rather than black plumage. |
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How many species of penguins are there? | Penguin biodiversity varies between 17 and 20 living species, all in the subfamily Spheniscinae. |
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How much time to penguins spend on land? | They spend half of their life on land. |
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How tall were the tallest prehistoric penguins? | as tall as an adult human |
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Is it also possible that penguin comes from the Latin pinguis , fat ? | Yes |
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Is it true that each penguin gets a turn in the center? | Yes |
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Is the largest living species the emperor penguin -LRB- aptenodytes forsteri -RRB-? | Yes |
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Is the smallest penguin species the Little Blue Penguin -LRB- also known as the Fairy Penguin -RRB- , which stands around 40 cm tall -LRB- 16 in -RRB- and weighs 1 kg -LRB- 2.2 lb -RRB- ? | Yes |
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Is the smallest penguin species the little blue penguin -LRB- also known as the fairy penguin -RRB- , which stands around 40 cm tall -LRB- 16 in -RRB- and weighs 1 kg -LRB- 2? | Yes |
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What is also the distance that Antarctic tourists are told to keep from penguins? | 3 meters |
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What is the largest living species of penguin? | the Emperor Penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) |
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What makes penguins so agile in the water? | Smooth plumage preserves a layer of air, ensuring buoyancy, wings are flippers |
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What order do penguins belong to? | Sphenisciformes |
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Why are penguins countershaded? | for camouflage |
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Why do penguins "tobaggan"? | It conserves energy while moving quickly |
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A semi-aquatic marine mammal , the polar bear has what? | It has adapted for life on a combination of land, sea, and ice. |
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Are polar bears excellent swimmers? | yes |
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Can polar bears be seen under infrared photography? | Polar bears are nearly invisible under infrared photography. |
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Do female polar bears weight more than the male? | no |
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Does a polar bear live in the Arctic? | yes |
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Have thumbpolar bears been made both controversial and famous for their distinctive white fur and their habitat ? | yes |
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How heavy is a male polar bear? | Most adult males weigh 350-650 kg |
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How heavy was the largest polar bear on record? | He allegedly weighed 1002 kg |
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How long is polar bear's guard hair? | 5-15 cm |
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How much weight do female polar bears gain during pregnancy? | They double their weight during pregnancy |
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Is a polar bear at high risk of extinction? | yes |
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Is a polar bear white in color? | yes |
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Is polar bear a carnivore? | Yes |
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Is polar bear a mammal? | Yes |
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Is the Polar Bear the mascot of Bowdoin college ? | yes |
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The bears sometimes what? | They sometimes have problems with various skin diseases with dermatitis caused sometimes by mites or other parasites. |
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What does a polar bear's fur provide? | A polar bear's fur provides camouflage and insulation |
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What is cause of polar bear's skin diseases? | mites or other parasites |
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What is largest polar bear on record? | A huge male, allegedly weighing 1002 kg (2200 lb) shot at Kotzebue Sound in northwestern Alaska in 1960. |
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What is polar bear's skin color? | white or cream |
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Why polar bear is a special species? | The World Conservation Union listed polar bears as a vulnerable species, one of three sub-categories of threatened status, in May 2006. Their latest estimate is that 7 out of 19 subpopulations are declining or already severely reduced. |
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Are Immature sea turtles not cared for by the adults ? | yes |
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Are Pleurodira known as side-necked turtles? | Yes |
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Are the Pleurodira sometimes known as the side-necked turtles , a reference to the way they withdraw their heads into their shells ? | yes |
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Are the largest turtles aquatic? | yes |
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Are turtle eggs leathery and soft? | Yes |
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Are turtles a part of the Flying Spaghetti Monster? | *shrug* |
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Are turtles being examined for longevity genes? | Yes |
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Are turtles ectothermic? | Yes |
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Are turtles pets? | Yes |
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Can turtles take many years to reach breeding age ? | yes |
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Do sea turtles lay eggs on dry sandy beaches? | Yes |
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Do turtles lay eggs underwater? | No |
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Does the Order Testudines not include both extant -LRB- living -RRB- and extinct species , the earliest known turtles being from around 215 million years ago ? | yes |
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Has this inspired genetic researchers to begin examining the turtle genome for longevity genes ? | yes |
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How do turtles reproduce? | They lay eggs |
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How many suborders are turtles divided into? | Three. |
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How often do turtles breed? | Every few years or more |
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If a turtle egg was kept warm, what would likely hatch? | A female turtle. |
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Is aquatic respiration in Australian freshwater turtles being studied? | yes |
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Name a turtle popularly kept as a pet. | Russian Tortoises |
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Name four related articles for the article on turtles. | Triassic, Ernst Haeckel, Kunstformen der Natur, Animal |
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What are turtle eggs covered in when they incubate? | Mud or Sand |