Which bird family includes the common poorwill, noted for extended torpor?
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Caprimulgidae
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Which bird family includes the common poorwill, noted for extended torpor?
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Caprimulgidae
In which California range did Edmund Jaeger find a hibernating common poorwill in 1946?
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Chuckwalla Mountains
Who definitively described hibernation-like torpor in the common poorwill in 1948?
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Edmund Jaeger
Which plant family contains the Albany pitcher plant as its only living species?
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Cephalotaceae
Which naturalist is honored by the carnivorous plant genus name Sarracenia?
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Michel Sarrazin
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In which California range did Edmund Jaeger find a hibernating common poorwill in 1946?
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Chuckwalla Mountains
Who definitively described hibernation-like torpor in the common poorwill in 1948?
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Edmund Jaeger
Which plant family contains the Albany pitcher plant as its only living species?
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Cephalotaceae
Which naturalist is honored by the carnivorous plant genus name Sarracenia?
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Michel Sarrazin
What plant family contains the carnivorous bromeliad Brocchinia reducta?
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Bromeliaceae
Which Nepenthes species is known only from Mount Kelam's granite cliff faces?
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Nepenthes clipeata
Which bladderwort had an 82-megabase genome reported in 2013?
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Utricularia gibba
Which Mexican butterwort grows in gypsum soils near San Luis Potosi?
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Pinguicula gypsicola
Which Heliamphora species was formally described by George Bentham in 1840?
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Heliamphora nutans