How I celebrated Earth Day by exploring fascinating facts with W|A

Yesterday, Tuesday 22 April 2014, was the Earth Day. And as usual, Google created a great doodle to celebrate it:

[![earth.gif|526x213](upload://8MsAdPRUWgjE1dbnT2sEIOuR9Yb.gif)](http://www.google.com/doodles/earth-day)

This year they featured six different species of animals. Google redirected me to the animals’ Wikipedia entries, but I wanted to know more about these creatures, so I asked Wolfram Alpha to compute several things for me:

[![alpha.jpg|564x906](upload://ukS5grWd6BxommpxaQtMXjWuX8A.jpeg)](http://www.wolframalpha.com/share/clip?f=d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427eofao62veu5)
[![Taxonomy.png|771x1050](upload://o9TaHy7s77qmtvmrsEDEdDwpQFc.png)](http://www.wolframalpha.com/share/clip?f=d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e3horj800bt)

I was really impressed by the refined information W|A provided, specially when I asked Wolfram Alpha to compute and compare taxonomic networks. :slight_smile: Enjoy!

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Taxonomic+Tree+of+Selasphorus+rufus+vs+Macaca+fuscata+vs+Chamaeleo+calyptratus+vs+Aurelia+aurita

[![tree.png|676x1021](upload://lx1cCq14AGknXkMossYK8AGofYT.png)](http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Taxonomic+Tree+of+Selasphorus+rufus+vs+Macaca+fuscata+vs+Chamaeleo+calyptratus+vs+Aurelia+aurita)
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