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Squeaks, It’s a great day to be alive! And yes, I’m really living — and so are you! But what does that mean? It sounds like a pretty simple question, right? There are living things all around us...as well as things that are not living. When was looking around the Fort’s playground a minute ago, I saw a rock — which is not a living thing. But the bird singing in the tree over there? That’s definitely living. And the tree is, too! But sometimes the answer to the question of what’s a living thing, and what’s not, can be a little tricky. I can hear a bird sing when I watch a video on a computer or phone—but, of course, computers and phones aren’t living things … even though they might make sounds exactly like things that are alive. Scientists called biologists study all sorts of living things — so they’re the experts on what things are living, and what things are not. After studying all kinds of life, they discovered that everything that’s alive, or was once a