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Ground Hog Day
Kim Smith, director of Oregon Zoo holds Jabari, the Oregon Zoo�s African pygmy hedgehog during a ground hog day celebration Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012, at the zoo, in Portland, Ore. Jabari did not see his shadow this morning, meaning an early spring could be in store. Or not. Historically, the hedgehog has been used in this centuries-old tradition to predict the onset of spring. Immigrants to North America substituted the groundhog when they found there were no hedgehogs in their new homeland. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)