National Geographic - USA (2020-03)

millions of dollars in lost crops—mostly fruits and vegetables. Growers use fencing, scare- crows, and pyrotechnics to deter mon ...

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At Kayabuki Tavern, diners laugh while clapping for masked monkeys. When the performance is over, customers ask to have their ph ...

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Kaoru Amagai lives in a traditional Japanese home in Ota, Gunma, with three pet macaques. He says he treats the monkeys as he wo ...

happens to animals when they’re no longer used by the entertainment industry.” But Oikawa said that people critical of the attra ...

We stepped into his troupe’s practice room, where Harada introduced me to his colleagues and their furry collaborators dressed i ...

These women have helped pave the way for new generations of National Geographic explorers. Asha de Vos BIOLOGIST Maria Mitchell ...

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Maria Mitchell 1818-1889 First person to discover a comet by telescope; first woman to work as a professional astronomer in the ...

The discovery of a comet propelled astronomer Maria Mitchell (seen at left, about 1880) to celebrity status in the mid-1800s. Sh ...

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‘I’VE NEVER FOUND MY SEX A HINDERMENT; NEVER FACED A DIFFICULTY WHICH A WOMAN, AS WELL AS A MAN, COULD NOT SURMOUNT; NEVER FELT ...

REINA TORRES DE ARAÚZ 1932-1982 First female Latin American grantee of the National Geographic Society; helped preserve Panama’s ...

Electa ‘Exy’ Johnson 1909-2004 Circled the globe seven times with her husband, Irving In 1960 Panamanian anthropologist Reina To ...

JOCELYN CRANE GRIFFIN 1909-1998 Assisted on bathysphere expedition; researched fiddler crabs ELSE BOSTELMANN 1882-1961 Painted m ...

giant fangs, psychedelic crustaceans, a never-before-seen black-skinned fish—made the expedition come alive in National Geograph ...

In the 1930s the boldest attempt at crewed deep-sea exploration was conducted in the steel contraption called the bathysphere. T ...

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