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Photograph credits (b = bottom, I = left, m = middle, r = right, t = top)
Page 9 (tl), 10 (t), 18 (t), 20 (b), 27 (b), 28, 35, 40 (b), 43 (bm), 44 (b), 50 (t), 52 (r), 53, 64 (r): © Paul Sterry/Nature
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27 (tl): © Mike Jones/FLPA; 29, 65 (r): © Stephen Dalton/NHPA; 30: © Roger Wilmshurst/FLPA; 34: ©John
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© Nigel J Dennis/NHPA; 54: © E A Janes/Nature Photographers Ltd; 61 (I): © Philip Newman/Nature Photographers
Ltd; 61 (r): © Ernie James/NHPA; 62: © Guy Edwardes/NHPA.
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