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  2. Jerusalem cricket - Wikipedia

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    Stenopelmatini. Genera. Ammopelmatus. Stenopelmatus. Jerusalem crickets (or potato bugs) [1] are a group of large, flightless insects in the genera Ammopelmatus and Stenopelmatus, together comprising the tribe Stenopelmatini. The former genus is native to the western United States and parts of Mexico, while the latter genus is from Central America.

  3. Lama (genus) - Wikipedia

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    Lama is a genus containing the extant South American camelids: the wild guanaco and vicuña and the domesticated llama, alpaca, and chilihueque. Before the Spanish conquest of the Americas, llamas, alpacas, and chilihueques were the only domesticated ungulates of the continent. They were kept not only for their value as beasts of burden, but ...

  4. El Llano en llamas - Wikipedia

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    20956761. El llano en llamas (translated into English as The Burning Plain and Other Stories, [1] The Plain in Flames, [2] and El Llano in flames [3]) is a collection of short stories written in Spanish by Mexican author Juan Rulfo. The stories were written over several years for different literary magazines, starting in 1945 with They Gave Us ...

  5. El hombre y la Tierra - Wikipedia

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    June 20, 1981. ( 1981-06-20) El hombre y la Tierra (Spanish for The Man and the Earth) is a 1974 Spanish nature documentary television series produced by Televisión Española. The show is presented by naturalist Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente. [1] The show was cancelled when he died in Alaska while shooting a documentary about the Iditarod ...

  6. Children's Eternal Rainforest - Wikipedia

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    Children's Eternal Rainforest. /  10.33972°N 84.70000°W  / 10.33972; -84.70000. The Children's Eternal Rainforest ( Spanish: Bosque Eterno de los Niños) is a private land trust and preserve in Costa Rica. The 23,000-hectare (57,000-acre) preserve is run by the non-profit Monteverde Conservation League.

  7. Wildlife of Chile - Wikipedia

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    Andean condor (Vultur gryphus) (NT) is the national bird of Chile. The wildlife of Chile is very diverse because of the country's slender and elongated shape, which spans a wide range of latitude, and altitude, ranging from the windswept coastline of the Pacific coast on the west to northern Andes to the sub-Antarctic, high Andes mountains in the east.

  8. Children of Llullaillaco - Wikipedia

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    La doncella ("The maiden"), the oldest of the three mummies of Inca children discovered in 1999 near Llullaillaco. The Children of Llullaillaco (Spanish: [(ɟ)ʝuʝajˈʝako]), also known as the Mummies of Llullaillaco, are three Inca child mummies discovered on 16 March 1999 by Johan Reinhard and his archaeological team near the summit of Llullaillaco, a 6,739 m (22,110 ft) stratovolcano on ...

  9. Terrestrial animal - Wikipedia

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    The okapi is a species of terrestrial vertebrate.. Terrestrial animals are animals that live predominantly or entirely on land (e.g. cats, chickens, ants, spiders), as compared with aquatic animals, which live predominantly or entirely in the water (e.g. fish, lobsters, octopuses), and semiaquatic animals, which rely on both aquatic and terrestrial habitats (e.g. most amphibians).