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Welcome to Issue 39

06 Amazing animals 52 Guardians of
the forest 86
12 Harvest mouse Learn all about the tapir
Meet nature’s most
adorable acrobat 58 Pigs of the world
20 50 fox facts Hogs and swine from around
the globe
Everything you ever wanted
to know about this family of 64 Lost forever:
cunning canines
Irish elk
28 Endangered Saint Why the world’s largest deer
disappeared
Lucia racer snake
What is being done to save 66 Saving orangutans
one of Earth’s rarest snakes? What is being done to
30 Cute but deadly protect Asia’s red apes?
What makes the slow 72 Explore the
loris so dangerous?
Earth: Nepal
36 Catch of the day Journey to the land of the
Breath-taking shots of how snow leopard
animals hunt their prey

80 Sawfish in numbers
42 Spooky animal Get to know an elasmobranch 58
with a long, jagged snout
myths busted
We reveal the truth about 82 Wildlife of
bats and black cats
the Sahara
44 All about the ostrich Meet some of the hardiest
Meet the fastest bird on land desert inhabitants
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inventory of the global conservation status of animal
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species in the world. Here’s what they mean:
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IN THE WILD
CRITICALLY ENDANGERED
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