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  How porcupines stay warm and protected

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  The quills of the North American porcupine ward off predators, and help keep it warm throughout winter. Footage from the show Winter's Hidden Wonders. …

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  100 years of elephants: See how Nat Geo has photographed these iconic creatures

  nationalgeographic.co.uk - By Christine Dell'Amore

  Once considered exotic quarry and beasts of burden, elephants are now viewed as treasures in need of saving.

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  National Geographic UK

  

  100 years of elephants: See how Nat Geo has photographed these iconic creatures

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  Elephants kick up ash from a wildfire in South Sudan’s Sudd wetland in a previously unpublished image taken in 2012. Pastoralists often set these …

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  Elephants are in trouble—and we’re to blame

  nationalgeographic.co.uk - By Rachel Hartigan

  We’ve expanded into their territory and exploited them for trinkets. Now a new series, Secrets of the Elephants, wants to inspire us to save them. One …

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  They’re destructive, there are 5 million of them—and they’re sacred

  nationalgeographic.co.uk - By Sushmita Pathak

  In India, wayward cattle are trampling crops, spreading disease, and causing car accidents. They’re also venerated. Across India, farmers are becoming …

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  Meet Mexico's 'forgotten panda.' She's the last of her kind.

  nationalgeographic.co.uk - By Nina Strochlic

  Her name is Xin Xin, and she's one of only three pandas in the world not owned by China. But these may be the final day's of Mexico's half-century …