Mystery Animal Contest: Who Is This Long-Beaked Surveyor?

Friday, October 4, 2013 - 19:00 in Mathematics & Economics

So, here are the rules: To answer, follow us on Twitter and tweet at us with the hashtag #mysteryanimal. For example: Hey @PopSci, is the #mysteryanimal a baboon? And then I might say "if you think that's a baboon, perhaps you are the baboon!" But probably not, because this is a positive environment and all guesses are welcome and also this is not a very common animal so guess whatever you want! The first person to get it right wins! We'll retweet the answer from @PopSci, and also update this post so your amazing animal knowledge will be permanently etched onto the internet. Show your kids! Your dumb kids who thought that was a baboon! Update: Congrats to @bohemianone, who correctly guessed that this is a collared aracari! The collared aracari is a bird in the toucan family--well, technically it is a toucan, though that's like saying a tiger technically is a cat--native to Central America and bits of North...

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