Ksenia, whom Baranov meets at a hedonistic party in the early 1990s as counterculturals rage amid the dawn of a new, post-USSR Russian era, is indicated as a grifting wild thing, the type who always has a mysterious male benefactor to keep her in minks.
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Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
31 Aug. 2025
On the smaller side, species like the river otter and mink can be found feasting on fish by the water’s edge, while lucky visitors may catch a glimpse of a wolverine roaming the tundra—and these are far from the only predators that call Katmai home.
His real name is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio; his stage name, as fans later learned, was inspired by a childhood photograph that captured him, scowling, in a rabbit costume.
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Kelefa Sanneh,
New Yorker,
15 Sep. 2025
Butterflies and other pollinators are common visitors, while deer and rabbits leave this plant alone.
In fact, the seals landed in the same statistical range as nursery rhymes, where repetition and predictability help a message carry and be remembered.
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Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
11 Sep. 2025
Still, Drury said, make sure to drive it in the rain, too, before buying it to see whether there are any leaky seals or foggy headlights or taillights.
By the 1920s and '30s, fox skins draped around the shoulders or fashioned into capes were especially beloved.
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Lydia Patrick,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 Sep. 2025
The playful creatures are prey to foxes, jaguars, and even at times humans, but tend to eat insects, plants, roots and smaller vertebrates, the zoo said.
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