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Sloth. Sloths are a Neotropical group of xenarthran mammals constituting the suborder Folivora, including the extant arboreal tree sloths and extinct terrestrial ground sloths. Noted for their slowness of movement, tree sloths spend most of their lives hanging upside down in the trees of the tropical rainforests of South America and Central ...
The blue jay is a noisy, bold, and aggressive passerine. It is a moderately slow flier (roughly 32–40 km/h or 20–25 mph) when unprovoked. [27] It flies with body and tail held level, with slow wing beats. Its slow flying speeds make this species easy prey for hawks and owls when it flies in open areas.
The Appalachian–Blue Ridge forests are an ecoregion in the Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests Biome, in the Eastern United States. The ecoregion is located in the central and southern Appalachian Mountains, including the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians and the Blue Ridge Mountains. It covers an area of about 61,500 square miles (159,000 km 2 ...
The order Primates consists of 505 extant species belonging to 81 genera. This does not include hybrid species or extinct prehistoric species. Modern molecular studies indicate that the 81 genera can be grouped into 16 families; these families are divided between two named suborders and are grouped in those suborders into named clades, and some of these families are subdivided into named ...
The world's tallest, thickest, largest, and oldest living trees are all conifers. The tallest is a coast redwood ( Sequoia sempervirens ), with a height of 115.55 metres (although one mountain ash, Eucalyptus regnans , allegedly grew to a height of 140 metres, [ 16 ] the tallest living angiosperms are significantly smaller at around 100 metres.
See also List of Quercus species. An oak is a hardwood tree or shrub in the genus Quercus of the beech family. They have spirally arranged leaves, often with lobed edges, and a nut called an acorn, borne within a cup. The genus is widely distributed in the Northern Hemisphere; it includes some 500 species, both deciduous and evergreen.
The following is a list of widely known trees and shrubs. [1 ... brahea palm trees; Brahea armata: Mexican blue palm ... corymbia trees; Corymbia ficifolia: red ...
Acacia ancistrocarpa × hilliana. Acacia ancistrocarpa × orthocarpa. Acacia aphanoclada × pyrifolia var. pyrifolia. Acacia arida × stellaticeps. Acacia auriculiformis × mangium (either direction) [12] Acacia ayersiana × incurvaneura. Acacia baileyana × dealbata. Acacia bivenosa × sclerosperma subsp. sclerosperma.