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There’s a certain vocabulary designated for the babies and groups of certain animal species. These collective nouns are officially known as “terms of venery” or “nouns of assembly.” You’re probably familiar with several, but Tidbits has discovered some unusual terms you might not know about. Follow along and see! • Baby alligators are known as hatchlings or juveniles and measure about 6 to 8 inches at birth. About 80% of young hatchlings will die as victims of predators such as birds, otters, snakes, bobcats, and raccoons. When they leave their mother at about three years of age, they’ll join a group known as a congregation. Don’t confuse the congregation with a bask or a float, which is a group of crocodiles. A bask of crocodiles are on the land while a float of crocs are in the water. • A baby alpaca or llama is called a cria, which is the Spanish word for baby. A female alpaca is pregnant for nearly a year to produce a single cria. • A coalition of cheetahs lives and hunts together for life. A coalition is frequently two or three brothers, and although they band together to claim a large area of land, they aren’t territorial. About 90% of cheetah cubs die within three months after birth, with predators killing 50%, and a poor immune system and disease taking out the remainder. Turn the page for more!

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• When we think of the word “flock,” we typically think of birds, but did you know that a group of camels is also called a flock? These unusual animals can travel up to 100 miles without drinking water. The 80 lbs. of fat stored in the camel’s hump is converted to water when needed. After a long period without water – sometimes up to weeks or even months – the camel will drink about 30 gallons of water to replenish itself. • And speaking of flocks, not every group of birds is called a flock. Birdwatchers tells us there are “unique and distinctive names” for many species of flying creatures. A group of crows is a murder or a muster, while a group of cranes is a sedge. Finches and hummingbirds gather in a charm, while hawks and falcons have three different labels – cast, cauldron, and kettle. Buzzards form a wake and eagles band together in a convocation. Magpies gather in a group known as a tiding, starlings are a murmuration, and an assemblage of nightingales are called a watch.

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• Porcupines are well-known for their sharp prickly quills that protect them against predators. So it’s no wonder a group of these rodents is known as a prickle! Porcupines take their name from the Latin, meaning “quill pig.” The quills, or spines, are actually hairs coated with thick plates of the fibrous protein keratin. The quills of the African crested porcupine are nearly a foot long! And the babies of these spiny fellows are called porcupettes.

• A whole lot of kangaroos form a mob or troop. The baby kangaroo is known as a joey, but so are the young offspring of koalas, opossums, and wombats.

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• Some animals are known by different names depending on what they’re doing. For example, when penguins are in the water, their group is called a raft. An assemblage of penguins on land can be a colony, a rookery, or a waddle. The group swims and hunts together to crease their chance of getting more food. There’s also a special term for penguin chicks that stay together in a group – a crèche. A group of Emperor penguins that gathers together in cold temperatures to conserve body heat is known as a huddle. When a group of geese is on the ground, we call it a gaggle, but if they’re in flight, they’re in a skein, unless, of course, they are in a V-formation, when they are known as a wedge.

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• How about bringing politics into the animal world? Owls gathering together are known as a parliament, while a group of baboons are, perhaps accurately, referred to as a congress! • Baby cockroaches, cicadas, grasshoppers, and mosquitoes are all referred to as nymphs.

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• In the reptile kingdom, if you come across a lot of cobras together, you’ve seen a quiver. If it’s rattlesnakes you see, that group is known as a rhumba. You might also wander into a den, pit, bed, or knot of snakes. • The definition of “ostentation” is “a vain show especially for the purpose of attracting attention and admiration.” That’s a pretty appropriate term for a group of peacocks with their elaborate iridescent blue and green plumage. Similarly, flamingos, with their flamboyant coloration ranging from pale pink to orange to crimson gather in a group fittingly known as a flamboyance. An assembly of giraffes is suitably referred to as a tower, since an adult giraffe might reach a height of 18.7 feet. And a group of zebras with their dazzling black and white coloring? They’re known as a dazzle!

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• The word “surfeit” is defined as “an overabundant supply or excess” or an “extreme indulgence in something.” But the word also applies to a group of skunks! Sometimes called polecats, the 11 species of skunks range in color from the familiar black and white to brown or cream-colored. A female skunk gives birth to a litter of 2 to 10 kits, as the babies are called, with each weighing between 32 and 35 grams. The kits are born without coats, but are already striped at birth, since the pattern is in their skin pigmentation. It doesn’t take long for a skunk to develop its distinctive odor – at just 8 days old, they can release their musk spray from their scent glands.

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A data breach occurred at the Department of Veterans Affairs when thieves attempted to divert medical payment funds at the Financial Services Center away from community health care providers that take care of veterans outside the VA. The minute the techies noticed the breach, they took it offline, of course, and locked it pending a security review. If that was the whole story, it would eventually be worked out when those providers got replacement payments from the VA. However, while the thieves were roaming around in the computers they also got the personal information of some 46,000 veterans, including Social Security numbers. As breaches go, this is one of the smaller ones the government has experienced. Remember a few years ago when millions of veterans were compromised? Still, it's unnerving to know your info is out there. Those affected by the breach, or a next of kin, will have been notified by now (the thieves also went after the personal info of deceased veterans). The VA is offering credit-monitoring services at no cost. Alerts went out by mail to those veterans affected, with instructions on how to protect personal info. (If you did not get an alert mail, you were not in the group that was breached.) If you received an alert letter and you have questions or concerns, contact the FSC Customer Help Desk by email at VAFSCVeteransSupport@va.gov. Unfortunately, in this hotly political climate, false rumors are the order of the day. One political party sent a snarly message to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs claiming that in addition to the 46,000 veterans, another 17,000 providers were affected as well. Not so. Turns out that there were 17,000 total providers who used the computer program, but only 13 were impacted and of those, only six had funds grabbed. (c) 2020 King Features Synd., Inc.

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Because October is Contact Lens Safety Month, Tidbits is offering up facts and history on these little visual aids. • Along with an early concept of a helicopter, water-powered mills, and his extensive study of anatomy, Leonardo da Vinci is also credited with the initial concept of contact lenses. In 1508, da Vinci conceived the idea of altering corneal power by submerging the head in a bowl of water or wearing a water-filled glass hemisphere over the eye. About 130 years later, French scientist Rene Descartes tried a glass tube filled with liquid placed in direct contact with the cornea, hence, the term “contact” lenses. Although it seemed to enhance vision to a certain degree, its awkward size and shape prevented the wearer from blinking. • In 1887, a German glass-blower named F.E. Muller, who was in the business of making glass eyes, created the first eye covering that could be tolerated by the wearer, and the following year, Swiss ophthalmologist Adolf Fick fitted the first blown-glass contact lens worn over the entire eye, and able to be worn for a few hours.

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• In 1929, glass contact lenses that conformed to the actual shape of an individual eye were invented. With a few years, the development of new plastic materials paved the way to lighterweight, unbreakable contact lenses. However, the lenses still covered the entire eye, depriving the eye of oxygen, so that they could only be worn for a few hours at a time. In 1948, lenses that only covered the cornea were developed, extending comfort and wear time. • Contacts stay in your eye because they stick to the tear film that covers the front of the eye, as well as by pressure produced by blinking. ...cont'd

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• Soft contact lenses made their debut in 1971, after two Czech chemists sold the rights to their invention to Bausch & Lomb. The FDA issued approval for extended overnight wear contacts in 1981. • Conditions such as myopia (nearsightedness), hyperopia (farsightedness), and astigmatism (errors in the shape of the cornea) are all greatly benefited by contact lenses. These conditions cause vision to be blurred or impaired because light is not properly focused on the retina. The contact lens functions as an aid for picking up light. DIFFERENCES:: DIFFERENCES 1. Cloud is missing. 2. Artist has glasses. 3. Boy's neckline is different. 4. Easel has third leg. 5. Painting is different. 6. Artist's paint rag is gone. © 2020 King Features Synd., All rights reserved.

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• An estimated 150 million people around the world wear contacts. About 45 million Americans wear contacts, with 65% of that number female. About 8% are under 18, 17% are 18 to 24, and the remainder are 25 and older. Ninetypercent of users wear soft contact lenses. • In October of 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson made history by becoming the first U.S. President to appear in public wearing contact lenses. • Colored contact lenses can completely cover the eye’s iris, radically changing eye color. Others are lightly tinted, making the user’s natural eye color more vivid. • Proper care of contact lenses is imperative to avoid serious eye infections. Anywhere between 40% and 90% of wearers don’t follow the care instructions, leading to upwards of one million doctor and hospital visits per year in the U.S., at a cost of $175 million. Infections that can lead to blindness affect 1 out every 500 users every year.

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