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Strangler figs: Silent assassins, diversity engines, rainforest timekeepers

[attention title=”Amazon Wired”]Varun Swamy, field course instructor (see Amazonian ABCs), is also one of the co-founders of the Amazon Wired project. Here he tells us how megaflora are really just as interesting as megafauna. This article originally appeared on the Rainforest Expeditions blog on June 19, 2017. To get to know Varun better, check out …

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7 Things You Might Not Know About India

Feature, Uncategorized / By Ben Lybarger

By Ben Lybarger While many people imagine India to be an exotic yogic wonderland where existential fulfillment flows from a sonorous sea of heavenly sitars, others have a much darker and equally unrealistic view. Many of the headlines that infiltrate the Western consciousness have been decidedly negative, featuring everything from sexual harassment to terrorism, and …

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In the Dead of Night: A Monkey Menace?

Feature, Uncategorized / By Ben Lybarger

By Ben Lybarger Lurking in the shadows, plucking moths from the air and scarfing them down with no remorse, this stealthy simian owns the night. No other nocturnal primate inhabits the Americas, apparently all of them lacking the bravery needed to cavort in the moonlight while jaguars and pumas prowl the forest below. Undaunted, night …

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