Illegal elephant sales, frog-hunting spiders & a thylacine

Illegal elephant sales, frog-hunting spiders & a thylacine “sighting”

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Dozens of elephants sold illegally to Chinese zoos, experts weigh in on an alleged thylacine sighting, a monkey rediscovered in Brazil after 80 years and signs of Alzheimer's detected in chimp brains for the first time. These stories and more in this week’s recap of nature news! ILLEGAL ELEPHANT SALES DEER CAPTURE CHANTEK DEAD AT 39 APE ALZHEIMER'S LIZARD BLOOD JUMPING HUNTERS MONKEY REDISCOVERED PUMA KITTENS THYLACINE “SIGHTING” SHOPPING KOALA

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