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Safari Adventure

Rabbit

by Jan Chong, Ian Tullis
Answers: ALL, JED

The first step is to appropriately name all the rabbits! Correctly matching all the clue-rabbits with their names from the name bank should get you:

The sum of all five Ocean's movies carrot The number of notes in a Harry Partch scale
Age of consent in California carrot It comes after 13, if you're Jennifer Garner
Kevin Durant's jersey number (now) carrot Default dpi on an Apple Macintosh
Emirp of the lowest value carrot The first irregular prime
Minutes in an NBA game carrot Street number of the Queensboro Bridge
Outcome in Craps, probably carrot "Thank you", if you're texting in Japan
Dual townships in Iowa (with appropriate names) carrot The least random number
The number of trombones in the big parade carrot Film about a match between Liverpool and Arsenal
When gold is 100% pure, it has this many karats carrot Frequency of the world's loneliest whale
Equitable oral sex position carrot A perfect score on the ACT
Name of Doctor Who episode set in real time carrot International dialing code for East Germany
Tech company behind Paper, Pencil and Paste carrot Aaron's nickname in Alien 3
Year the inventor of paper was born carrot The number of balls in an American game of BINGO
Sammy Hagar can't drive this slowly carrot Age limit for Canadian Senators
Italy's lucky number carrot Where Bobby Troup gets his kicks
Xenon has this number of electron shells carrot With "Sum", band behind Fat Lip

Immediately, you may notice that the first letter of all the clues on the left side of the carrots spell out the phrase TAKE MOD TWENTY SIX, which you should certainly do, but before that, you need to identify all the numbers that the clues are correspond to. This should get you:

55 carrot 43
18 carrot 30
7 carrot 72
13 carrot 37
48 carrot 59
7 carrot 39
76 carrot 17
76 carrot 89
24 carrot 52
69 carrot 36
42 carrot 37
53 carrot 85
48 carrot 75
55 carrot 75
13 carrot 66
5 carrot 41

Now what? Well, a homophone for carrot is... caret and if we replace all of the carrots with carets, we get something we can solve two ways: a ^ can mean an exponent or it can be a bitwise XOR.

expression exponent % 26 XOR % 26
55 ^ 43 3 (C) 2 (B)
18 ^ 30 12 (L) 12 (L)
7 ^ 72 1 (A) 1 (A)
13 ^ 37 13 (M) 14 (N)
48 ^ 59 16 (P) 11 (K)
7 ^ 39 5 (E) 6 (F)
76 ^ 17 20 (T) 15 (O)
76 ^ 89 20 (T) 21 (U)
24 ^ 52 16 (P) 18 (R)
69 ^ 36 1 (A) 19 (S)
42 ^ 37 16 (P) 15 (O)
53 ^ 85 1 (A) 18 (R)
48 ^ 75 14 (N) 19 (S)
55 ^ 75 1 (A) 20 (T)
13 ^ 66 13 (M) 1 (A)
5 ^ 41 5 (E) 18 (R)

Pulling out those messages: CLAMPETT PAPA NAME is JED (first answer) and BLANK FOURS OR STAR is ALL (second answer).