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Lake Manyara National Park is a protected area in Tanzania's Arusha and Manyara Regions, situated between Lake Manyara and the Great Rift Valley.It is administered by the Tanzania National Parks Authority, and covers an area of 325 km 2 (125 sq mi) including about 230 km 2 (89 sq mi) lake surface.
The Australian zebra finch was described in 1837 by John Gould as Amadina castanotis, about two decades after the Sunda zebra finch (T. guttata) was described. [4] For over a century and a half, the Australian and Sunda zebra finches were classified as a single species, Taeniopygia guttata.
The Bronx Zoo (also historically the Bronx Zoological Park and the Bronx Zoological Gardens) is a zoo within Bronx Park in the Bronx, New York City.It is one of the largest zoos in the United States by area and is the largest metropolitan zoo in the United States by area, [5] comprising 265 acres (107 ha) of park lands and naturalistic habitats separated by the Bronx River.
New York City remained the national capital under the new constitution until 1790 when it was moved to Philadelphia until 1800, when it was relocated to its current location in Washington, D.C. [71] and was the site of the inauguration of President George Washington, [72] In the first session of the Supreme Court of the United States, the ...
The English word beaver comes from the Old English word beofor or befor and is connected to the German word biber and the Dutch word bever.The ultimate origin of the word is an Indo-European root for ' brown '. [2]
Shrek is a 2001 American animated fantasy comedy film loosely based on the 1990 children's picture book Shrek! by William Steig.Directed by Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson, and written by Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Joe Stillman, and Roger S. H. Schulman, it is the first installment in the Shrek film series.
Height of the Salto Angel, the world's highest free-falling waterfall 10 3: 1 kilometer 2.3 km Length of the Three Gorges Dam, the largest dam in the world [34] [35] 3.1 km Narrowest width of the Strait of Messina, separating Italy and Sicily: 8.848 km Height of Mount Everest, the highest mountain on Earth 10 4: 10 km: 10.9 km
The raccoon (/ r ə ˈ k uː n / or US: / r æ ˈ k uː n / ⓘ, Procyon lotor), also spelled racoon [3] and sometimes called the common raccoon or northern raccoon to distinguish it from the other species, is a mammal native to North America.