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1 " A fed bear is a dead bear. Remember when you’re in the Park, it’s their home. We are only visitors. "
― Carolyn Jourdan , Bear in the Back Seat I: Adventures of a Wildlife Ranger in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
2 " The technical term for a gang of skunks is a surfeit. "
3 " It’s a rare type of synchronous firefly that lives in a few places around the world. Scientists from Tennessee used to travel to Asia to study them until they realized we had them right here! Nowadays in June, tens of thousands of people come from all over the world to see the show. "
4 " They aren’t native to the area. These wild pigs are a cross between free-ranging domestic hogs and massive, wary Russian wild boars imported by a wealthy businessman for his private hunting lodge on Hoopers Bald, North Carolina in 1912. "
5 " …an area so biologically diverse that it was designated as a world environmental treasure by the United Nations. "