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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>At last: Parasites get some respect!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:44:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Along the coast of Baja, California, a new study finds that parasites outweigh top predators. What does this mean for ecology, and what is the story with "castrating parasites"?]]></description>
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		<title>With a little help from a chimp?</title>
		<link>http://whyfiles.org/2007/with-a-little-help-from-a-chimp/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2007 18:38:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are humans the only animals that will help another animal without any expectation of reward? Not according to a recent study, which shows they're willing to help unrelated apes.]]></description>
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		<title>Flying with bats</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2007 19:17:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New study shows how they stay aloft, turn on a dime. Freeze-frame pix of bats flying show unexpectedly complex flight patterns. Meet evolution's second answer to the problem of vertebrate flight.
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		<title>Eat Me &#8216;n Die: Toxic Toad Makes Poison Snake!</title>
		<link>http://whyfiles.org/2007/eat-me-n-die-toxic-toad-makes-poison-snake/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2007 21:09:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Toxins are nature's best defenses. The Asian snake can get toxin by eating toxic food. If an Asian snake offers to let you gobble its pretty neck, don't be tempted!]]></description>
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		<title>New Trick for Water Pistol of the Sea</title>
		<link>http://whyfiles.org/2006/new-trick-for-water-pistol-of-the-sea/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Oct 2006 19:26:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How's a hungry fish supposed to make a living in the shallow water below tropical mangrove trees? Hint: Squirt, squirt!]]></description>
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		<title>Parasitic Plant Sniffs its Prey!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2006 01:12:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After its seed sprouts, this parasitic plant must find a host in four days, or else it dies. Solution? Smell the host plant's unique bouquet.]]></description>
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		<title>Malaria Defense: Can Mosquitoes Help?</title>
		<link>http://whyfiles.org/2006/malaria-defense-can-mosquitoes-help/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Apr 2006 02:57:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Malaria harms people and mosquitoes. Some skeeters already kill malaria. Shouldn't we work together to control this global blood parasite?]]></description>
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		<title>New Zealand Bugs Do Mouse Work!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Mar 2006 03:02:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Small rodents spread lots of seeds in nature, but they were absent from New Zealand. Do giant grasshoppers replace mice and rats in transporting seeds?]]></description>
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		<title>Evolutionary Mystery: Bizarre Beetle Horns</title>
		<link>http://whyfiles.org/2005/bizarre-beetle-horns/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2005 02:35:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[They may seem like the lowliest members of the animal kingdom, but dung beetles around the world sport a spectacular diversity of 'horns.' The strange appendages have forced biologists to reassess their understanding of evolution.]]></description>
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