Wikipedia:WikiProject Tree of Life/Newsletter/021

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{{icon|FA}} Rodrigues night heron by {{noping|FunkMonk}}

{{icon|FA}} Titanis by {{noping|Augustios Paleo}}

{{icon|FL}} List of lorisoids by {{noping|PresN}}

{{icon|FL}} List of storks by {{noping|AryKun}}

{{icon|GA}} Brontosaurus by {{noping|Augustios Paleo}}, reviewed by {{noping|The Morrison Man}}

{{icon|GA}} Eukaryote by {{noping|Chiswick Chap}}, reviewed by {{noping|Fritzmann2002}}

{{icon|GA}} Stramenopile by {{noping|Chiswick Chap}}, reviewed by {{noping|Fritzmann2002}}

{{icon|GA}} Titanoboa by {{noping|Augustios Paleo}}, reviewed by {{noping|SilverTiger12}}

{{icon|GA}} Antarctopelta by {{noping|Augustios Paleo}}, reviewed by {{noping|Jens Lallensack}}

{{icon|GA}} Anna Blackburne by {{noping|Kusma}}, reviewed by {{noping|Etriusus}}

{{icon|GA}} Anomochilus leonardi by {{noping|AryKun}}, reviewed by {{noping|Amitchell125}}

{{icon|GA}} Nyctibatrachus manalari by {{noping|AryKun}}, reviewed by {{noping|Sammi Brie}}

{{icon|GA}} Mimodactylus by {{noping|FunkMonk}}, reviewed by {{noping|Jens Lallensack}}

{{icon|GA}} Nyctibatrachus major by {{noping|AryKun}}, reviewed by {{noping|Etriusus}}

{{icon|GA}} Anomochilus weberi by {{noping|AryKun}}, reviewed by {{noping|Etriusus}}

{{icon|GA}} Plant by {{noping|Chiswick Chap}}, reviewed by {{noping|Cessaune}}

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{{icon|FAC}} Polar bear by {{noping|LittleJerry}}

{{icon|FAC}} Mimodactylus by {{noping|FunkMonk}}

{{icon|FLC}} List of cercopithecoids by {{noping|PresN}}

{{icon|FLC}} List of tapaculos by {{noping|AryKun}}

{{icon|GAN}} Klallamornis by {{noping|Larrayal}}

{{icon|GAN}} Hypericum perforatum by {{noping|Fritzmann2002}}

{{icon|GAN}} Holozoa by {{noping|Snoteleks}}

{{icon|GAN}} Teloschistaceae by {{noping|Esculenta}}

{{icon|GAN}} Carcharodontosaurus by {{noping|Augustios Paleo}}

{{icon|GAN}} Nyctibatrachus radcliffei by {{noping|AryKun}}

{{icon|GTC}} Anomochilus by {{noping|AryKun}}

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• ... that orcas have been teaching each other to attack boats? (August 2)
• ... that Ameles decolor has one of the most complex mating rituals of any praying mantis? (August 4)
• ... that salt marsh snakes (examples pictured) drink only rainwater? (August 6)
• ... that by 1967, staff at the Home Office were told not to feed Peta morsels of food as she had become "inordinately fat"? (August 8)
• ... that the perigynia of the few-flowered sedge spring outward when brushed against? (August 16)
• ... that three burnt golf balls are preserved at Kew Gardens as a "rare fungal species"? (August 19)
• ... that the chemicals responsible for the smell of freshly cut grass are a plant defense mechanism? (August 20)
• ... that the Blackburnian warbler (example pictured) is named after Anna Blackburne, who provided specimens to Thomas Pennant? (August 22)
• ... that Tylocephale possibly used their domed skulls to fight one another? (August 24)
• ... that John Cleese once called Olivia Benson "the weirdest cat I've ever seen in my life"? (August 25)
• ... that Winston Churchill was often portrayed as a bulldog (pictured), but his personal pet dog during the Second World War was a poodle? (August 25)
• ... that a report by the philosopher Jonathan Birch and colleagues led to cephalopods and decapods being recognised as sentient under the UK's Animal Welfare (Sentience) Act? (August 27)
• ... that Mike Wingfield named a fungus after his first grandchild, Rachel? (August 27)
• ... that depending on who you ask, an anomochilid could be a dwarf or a giant? (August 28)