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In 1996, when the langurs were highly endangered, Dr. Pan Wenshi, China’s premier panda biologist, came to study them in Chongzuo at what was then an abandoned military base. This was at a time when hunters were taking the canary-yellow young langurs from their cliff-face strongholds, and villagers were leveling the forest for firewood.
Pan [...]
From NationalGeographic, by photographer Steve Winter.
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A camera is attached to an elephant’s trunk to capture those amazing jungle views.
Downer said he came up with the idea three years ago when his team started filming the tigers.
He noticed how gently the forest elephants carried firewood to their camp and wondered if they’d be as delicate with a camera.
“And [...]
From ScienceDaily.
Throughout the tropics, ants and Acacia trees live together in intricate interdependent relationships that have long fascinated scientists.
Now researchers are reporting that in Africa, this plant-insect teamwork depends on the very antagonist it is intended to ward off: Africa’s big browsing mammals.
Researchers report that elephants, giraffes and other large plant-eaters spur Acacias to “hire” [...]
From The Nature Conservancy.
Neither British colonists nor Christian missionaries nor government entities could tamp down conflicts among tribes in this remote South Pacific island nation. But when turtles started disappearing, the local people finally started talking.
The Solomon Islands, a remote Pacific archipelago strung southeast of Papua New Guinea, are probably best known as the site [...]
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