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A trumpeter’s tale
Joseph Tobias for BBC Wildlife magazine
Pale-winged trumpeters behave like monkeys, but sound like
raspberry-blowing schoolchildren...
Gentlemen biologists prefer redheads
Mark Bowler for BBC Wildlife magazine
With a bald, scarlet head and bright orange fur, the red uakari is
the world's strangest-looking monkey...
Lair of the ice-shark
Chris Harvey Clark for BBC Wildlife magazine
The Greenland shark has long been regarded as a sluggish scavenger, but could it be responsible for mysterious seal deaths in the Arctic?
Animal Fact Files
Meet the whales - Cath
Cath, the fourth whale tagged as part of the love earth project, was foraging for krill in a group of humpbacks when the team found her.
Meet the polar bears - Nuka
The youngest of the polar bears collared by our scientific partners was christened Nuka - a Greenlandic term for 'younger sister'.
Meet the elephants - Letsatsi
The third elephant collared for love earth was named Letastsi, meaning 'sun', to match her vibrant personality.
Meet the whales - Emily
Emily, the first whale to be tagged as part of the love earth project, had a one-year-old calf in tow.
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Bruce Mate: my life with whales
Katie Hiscock
Ever been caught between two amorous male whales and a female? Dr Bruce Mate has - just one yarn from a lifetime of pioneering whale research.
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