Answers, Gorillas and Wallpaper!

Hi Everyone!

REAL OR FAKE ANIMAL GAME ANSWERS

Thanks for playing the Real or Fake Animal Game yesterday. Unfortunately nobody won, so I guess it was a toughy!

Here are the answers.

A). REAL - Western Crowned Pigeon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Crowned_Pigeon

B). REAL - Plume Moth

http://www.plumemoth.com/

C). REAL - Aardwolf

http://www.livingdesert.org/animals/aardwolf.asp

D). FAKE - (It started out as a work of art!)

E). REAL - Brown Sicklebill
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_Sicklebill

F). REAL - Blue Weevil

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/tropical-blue-weevil-douglas-barnett.html

G). REAL - Ribbon Tailed Astrapia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribbon-tailed_Astrapia

H). FAKE - (It started out as a flower. I erased the stem, added an eye and blurred the "wings".)

I). REAL - Boll Weevil

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boll_weevil

J). REAL - Wooly Aphid (Everyone thought this little guy was fake! Cool factoid: They are also called Farie Flies and Fuzzebutts. Not kidding!)

http://bugguide.net/node/view/7465/bgimage

K). REAL - Blue Bird of Paradise

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Bird_of_Paradise

VIDEO CLIP
Here's a video clip that will make you cheer for joy! The first half is about new species that have been discovered recently, and the second half features the discovery of a previously undetected population of 125,000 lowland gorillas! That's nearly triple their known population! Whoo hoo!http://www.sling.com/video/show/143819/32/Discovering-New-Species

WALLPAPERS

And last, you have GOT to check out Nationalgeographic.com for some amazing wallpapers for your computer. I'm posting some of my favorites here for you to enjoy, but NG has a ton of great images for you to use! How AWESOME is the diversity of nature?!
http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/wallpapers