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Beane explains how some creatures inhabiting our state--animals, snakes, amphibians--that lack claws, fangs, size, and protective armor, uses other devices to protect themselves. Some, such as opossums, make like carrion. Others, for example, hognose snakes, hedgehogs, and skunks, exude or excrete certain items that turn a would-be predators stomach.
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21038
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Fuller calls vultures \"the custodians of the biological world--happily devouring the smelliest, foulest, and most putrid remains found in nature.\" North Carolina has two species--the black vulture and the turkey vulture. Fuller details their eating habits, and if the vultures are harassed, they will throw up \"their hot, stinky, corrosive stomach contents,\" definitely a deterrent to any would-be predator.
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The hagfish is unusual to look at--an eel body that's pink, eyespots instead of eyes, and a sensor around the mouth to help it find food. However, it is the slime, not the looks that gross people out. Other creatures produce slime--slugs, eels, algae--but nothing else matches \"the sticky squishy mucus of hagfish slime.\"
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Liz Baird, NC Museum of Natural Science in Raleigh, has been named Environmental Educator of the Year by the Environmental Educators of North Carolina. Baird has had a 15-year career with the museum. The award recognizes \"an educator who stands out, exemplifies excellence, lends credibility to the field, and is regarded as a \"dynamo\" that other environmental educators strive to emulate.\"
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