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This piece comes to us from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). To honor Hispanic Heritage Month, WCS and Nature are bringing you five stories in the fields of nature and conservation. Whenever people ask me what I do for a living, I always say the ...

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Seal: Seals are part of a group of mammals called pinnipeds, which translates to “fin-footed.” Kingdom: | Animalia Phylum: | Chordata Class: | Mammalia Order: | Carnivora Clade: | Pinnipedia Family: | Phocidae There are currently 33 species of pinnipeds, which are colloquially known as ...

Eels: ray-finned fish belonging to the order Anguilliformes. Kingdom: | Animalia Phylum: | Chordata Class: | Actinopterygii Order: | Anguilliformes There are about 800 species of eels that belong to eight suborders, 19 families and 111 genera. Size and Weight: Eels vary in size depending ...

Bumblebee: any of over 250 species in the genus Bombus. Kingdom: | Animalia Phylum: | Arthropoda Class: | Insecta Order: | Hymenoptera Family: | Apidae Genus: | Bombus There are over 250 species of bumblebees. They fall in the genus Bombus and are part of ...

King Cobra (Ophiophagus hannah): a large, venomous snake native to Asia. Kingdom: | Animalia Class: | Reptilia Order: | Squamata Family: | Elapidae Genus: | Ophiophagus Species: | O. hannah There are 21 species of cobras, but the king cobra is the sole member of ...

  Peacock (or peafowl): any of three species of birds of the pheasant family Phasianidae. AKA: The male is a peacock, the female is a peahen and the babies are peachicks. All are peafowl. Kingdom: | Animalia Class: | Aves Order: | Galliformes Family: | ...