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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

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Scarlet macaw

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