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August 2014

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14 August 2014
Africa

Monkeys use field scientists as human shields against predators

This is quite an interesting article about monkeys using human shields when they worry about predation. I remember hearing a story in Zambia about this working the other way around

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14 August 2014
Europe and the Palearctic
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Bat photography in the French Pyrenees

Last week I spent a week photographing bats with a friend in the French pyrenees, where we visited desman biologist Alain Bertrand. He is an old friend from our desman adventures a

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Offset your Greenhouse Gases when you fly - and protect Gola Rainforest

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