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  2. Big Bird - Wikipedia

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    Big Bird is a Muppet character designed by Jim Henson and built by Kermit Love for the children's television show Sesame Street.An eight-foot-two-inch-tall (249 cm) bright yellow anthropomorphic bird, [6] [7] he can roller skate, ice skate, dance, swim, sing, write poetry, draw, and ride a unicycle.

  3. Big Bird (finch) - Wikipedia

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    Big Bird, also known as the Big Bird lineage, is one of the species of Darwin's finches that is exclusively present on Daphne Major of the Galápagos Islands.It originated from a mixed-breed of the Española cactus finch (Geospiza conirostris) and the medium ground finch (Geospiza fortis) that immigrated to Daphne Major in 1981. [1]

  4. Mr. Snuffleupagus - Wikipedia

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    For many years, only Big Bird would see Snuffy, because he would always leave while Big Bird went to get the others, leading everyone else to believe Snuffy was simply an imaginary friend, but after Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird, Big Bird finally succeeded in revealing Snuffy to his friends on Sesame Street.

  5. Big Bird was considered for the space shuttle Challenger - AOL

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    Big Bird from Sesame Street was close to being one of the casualties of the space shuttle Challenger. According to Caroll Spinney, the long-time puppeteer behind the costume, NASA had sent him a ...

  6. Sanders, Haley... Big Bird? Here's who Bergen County voters ...

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    If those selections seem strange, consider that Mickey Mouse (four votes) and Big Bird (one) also appeared as write-in choices despite being fictional animals. Tony Soprano earned a vote, as did ...

  7. ZW sex-determination system - Wikipedia

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    The ZW sex-determination system is a chromosomal system that determines the sex of offspring in birds, some fish and crustaceans such as the giant river prawn, some insects (including butterflies and moths), the schistosome family of flatworms, and some reptiles, e.g. majority of snakes, lacertid lizards and monitors, including Komodo dragons.

  8. Sexual dimorphism - Wikipedia

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    The plumage of the peacock increases its vulnerability to predators because it is a hindrance in flight, and it renders the bird conspicuous in general. [7] Similar examples are manifold, such as in birds of paradise [8] and argus pheasants. [citation needed] Another example of sexual dichromatism is that of nestling blue tits. Males are ...

  9. Mr. Hooper - Wikipedia

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    Mr. Harold Hooper (played by Will Lee) was one of the first four human characters to appear on the television series Sesame Street.Created by producer and writer Jon Stone, Mr. Hooper is the original proprietor of Hooper's Store, the neighborhood variety store and combination diner/corner store that serves as a place for Muppets and humans to meet and interact.