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Trumpeter

A trumpeter’s tale

Joseph Tobias for BBC Wildlife magazine

Pale-winged trumpeters behave like monkeys, but sound like raspberry-blowing schoolchildren...

Find out more about the trumpeter bird

Red uakari

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...

Read more about a strange-looking monkey

Greenland shark

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?

Find out more about the Greenland shark

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Dr Bruce Mate

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.

Read about Bruce's own amazing journey

Explore earth

David Attenborough

love earth heroes

Find out more about just some of the people who are helping to save the planet.

Meet the heroes

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