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	<description>Ramblings of a tropical plant-animal interactivist</description>
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		<title>Megafaunal island Meiolania</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a new paper in PNAS by Arthur White and colleagues from Australia, they describe a newly discovered, magnificent creature from the island nation of Vanuatu in the Southwest Pacific. Imagine walking through the steamy lowland jungles of the island of Efate in Vanuatu. Sweat pours down your back and pretty much everywhere else on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://plant-animal.org/blog/?p=185</link>
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		<title>Canary Islands</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It has been a few years since I was lucky enough to work there with Yoko, Alfredo &#038; Jens &#8211; but this superb video by Pedro Filipe took me straight back to some of the magic places we worked, particularly the sub-alpine volcanic landscapes around El Teide. There is even a clip of an endemic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://plant-animal.org/blog/?p=142</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Pulp regeneration&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another one from my inbox, below. My best (?) guess is that one of our papers on seed dispersal for obvious reasons includes information on fruit pulp, and that this was picked up by some automated robot. By the way, because I am evil, I ignored the first email they sent me. Naughty. Dear Professor [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://plant-animal.org/blog/?p=138</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Accelerate your H1N1 pandemic research&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Those were the words in the subject header of a recent email in my inbox. Apparently, someone got something mixed up along the way, as the email continued: Dear Dr. Hansen, WHO has declared H1N1 pandemic on June 11, 2009. You are probably working against the clock to create effective vaccines and discover the infection [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://plant-animal.org/blog/?p=134</link>
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		<title>The Project Has Begun</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just started writing a book. There, I said it. So now I guess I better get on with it. Actually, it has been on the move for 10 years since its first, drunken inception, but I digress. Who am I trying to kid, right? It&#8217;s going to be an awareness-raising book on lost &#38; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://plant-animal.org/blog/?p=128</link>
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		<title>Mini-megafauna</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today is a happy day for Mauro &#38; me &#8211; our short Perspective on the relativity of the megafauna concept is out in Science! Plus, even better, we convinced the well-known and fantastic paleo-artist, Carl Buell, to do the illustrations! I think they are fantastic; especially (no bias whatsoever) his rendition of the extinct saddle-backed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://plant-animal.org/blog/?p=113</link>
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		<title>From defaunation to refaunation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last Thursday and Friday I participated in the defaunation symposium, hosted by Rodolfo and Mauro, with Camila as the benign wizard making everything run smoothly. A thousand times thanks to this dynamic trio for the immense work they put into making this happen! (why is Mauro looking so weird&#8230;? -watch this space!). It was a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://plant-animal.org/blog/?p=65</link>
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		<title>Gael</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No, I didn&#8217;t mis-spell; that&#8217;s the name of Gael &#8211; the &#8220;moderate tropical storm&#8221;-currently having a blast a wee bit to the north-east of Mauritius, and passing us close during night. Quite fitting name, though. Fingers crossed for my guava-and-tarpaulin hut whare. Kiwi-built, and upgraded over the last 10 years by Brits, Germans &#38; a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://plant-animal.org/blog/?p=63</link>
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		<title>No GMO!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am so happy to know that even the take-away container from our local cafe here on Campus does not contain any GMO. You know, it&#8217;s like, you know, like, totally, like awesome and stuff. But the food inside is freshly made, and of pretty high quality. Sure hell beats the old sour re-heated stuff [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://plant-animal.org/blog/?p=61</link>
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		<title>Seychelles interactions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two of my best friends &#38; colleagues, Chris &#38; Nancy, just got married to each other in the Seychelles. It&#8217;s not as glamorous as it sounds &#8211; they both live &#38; work there. And yet. The wedding was on Bird Island, a private nature reserve &#38; a tiny speck in the Indian Ocean, where some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://plant-animal.org/blog/?p=53</link>
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