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	<title>The Why Files &#187; Plants &amp; animals</title>
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		<title>Raising (Whooping) Crane</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:46:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ultralight aircraft are guiding crane chicks toward Florida wintering grounds. Dangers remain, but it's a step ahead for Americas' largest flying bird, once reduced to 21 animals.]]></description>
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		<title>Imitation: Better than flattery?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 20:11:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imitation is a social glue in human society. We like people who imitate us.  We call them friend. We will even tip them better! A new study finds similar responses in monkeys...]]></description>
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		<title>Animal arms race</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:44:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The struggle between predator and prey never ends. Bats invented sonar, and now some moths are fighting back. Check out the Why Files acoustic-organic warfare, airborne edition.]]></description>
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		<title>History of fishing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 21:56:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new study finds a surprising number of fish, birds and mammals in the oceans 100 and 1,000 years ago. Can this information help regulators slow the decline of important marine animals?]]></description>
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		<title>Counting birds</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 21:27:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The feds put out a massive report on American birds, and the #1 source of data is – amateurs! What is the role of amateurs in ornithology? Hint: if you want to survey 800 species on 3.5 million square miles…]]></description>
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		<title>After the chimp attack</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 03:29:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We explore the sad saga of pet primates. Are these pets psychologically good for us? For them?  Are humans and other primates trading diseases at home, and in the wild?]]></description>
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		<title>Life of the locust: Biblical plague explained</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Locusts live a solitary life -- until their bodies suddenly change, and they swarm into clouds of destructive insects. A new study fingers the trigger for this transformation.]]></description>
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		<title>Bush creates huge Pacific reserves</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:13:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three giant new reserves, extend 50 miles out from shore, will protect coral reefs, fish, clams, and other life forms. But how effective are marine protected areas?]]></description>
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		<title>Life during the &#8220;other&#8221; Big Bang!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 20:58:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did the arrival of 4,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons of space junk start the formation of organic molecules roughly 4 billion years ago? "Could be," says a new study from Japan...]]></description>
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		<title>Assembly-lines don&#8217;t work for ants!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 17:37:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Specialization may work in factories, but it does not make ant colonies more efficient. As the conventional wisdom about social insects goes topsy-turvy, what's an ecologist to think?]]></description>
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