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Also Known As trash duck • fish duck • sawbill • Mergus

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red-breasted merganser
Red-breasted merganser (Mergus serrator)
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Young chimpanzee dressed in a shirt and sweater vest, scratching his head thinking. (primates)
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turkey vulture. vulture. Close-up of a head and beak of a Turkey vulture (Cathartes aura).
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Sea otter (Enhydra lutris), also called great sea otter, rare, completely marine otter of the northern Pacific, usually found in kelp beds. Floats on back. Looks like sea otter laughing. saltwater otters
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