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Contents
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Editor’s Note
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The Living Laboratory of Hope
BY A N N A B A DK HE N
Elephants Are Total ScaredyCats Around Bees
The buzz on preventing elephants from plundering
communities
Features
BY CHARL ES DIGGES
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A Park for the People
Behind the creation of Gorongosa National Park
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Ecosystems are suffering without their invaluable
scavenger, victim of a bad reputation
BY G R EG CA R R
BY JORI L EWIS
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Welcome to Gorongosa
National Park
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Nautilus puts a spotlight on Gorongosa National
Park, a model for biodiversity restoration
BY K ATHARINE G AMMON
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A Map of Life Like None Other
Students of the Wild
Hands-on fieldwork, cutting-edge science, and baboons
who steal your lunch
BY J O H N ST E E L E
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We’ll Miss the Vulture
ZOOLOGY
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In one of the most biodiverse places on the planet,
scientists are charting the amazing web of life
The Social Life of Bats
They sing, have dialects, reserve special tones for their
pups—our reporter journeys to Mozambique to explore
the unique communication of bats
BY K AT H A RI N E G A M MO N
BY JORI L EWIS
ZO O LO GY
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The Perilous Life of the
Solitary Pangolin
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Fire on the Savanna
Our writer joins researchers in Mozambique to uncover
how fire shapes Africa’s grand wilderness
Poached to the edge of extinction, the bashful
animals are getting by with a little help from their
friends in Africa
BY K ATHARINE G AMMON
BY C H A R LE S D I G G E S
PALEONTOLOGY
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar
and the Ecosystem
Caterpillars are a remarkable bellwether of
environmental changes
In their search for the last common ancestor of chimps
and humans, scientists at Gorongosa National Park are
expanding the picture of early primate life
BY K AT H A RI N E G A M MO N
BY CHARL ES DIGGES
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Digging for Our Origins in the
Bone Beds of an African Park
A Fragile Equilibrium
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The Last Word
Marc Stalmans
Inside one national park’s quest to make peace
between humans and animals
The director of science at Gorongosa National Park in
Mozambique on the history and promise of the park
BY J O R I L E WI S
INTER VI EW BY G AYIL NALLS
COVER Piotr Naskrecki
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