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Navigate site by clicking on blue links, the above icons, any image, or the search button after entering text. We provide free on-line tools to identify species, share ways to teach and study nature's wonders, report findings, build maps, process images, and contribute to and learn from a growing, interactive encyclopedia of life that now has ${NAME_COUNT} species pages. Can you find 6 species and 10 individuals in this image? What are they doing? Please get involved and join our research and educational projects.   —  John Pickering

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