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Posted on November 19, 2007

Elephants don’t like it hot

Paris Hilton, then hot peppers. Indian elephants can’t catch a break.

Posted on November 19, 2007November 19, 2007

Teaching conservation

School play: biotech for agrobiodiversity conservation. Brecht unavailable for comment.

Posted on November 19, 2007

Chimp food gathering behaviour studied

Chimps dig tubers. In both senses.

Posted on November 16, 2007

Elephants free to drink in peace

We were had. Paris Hilton does not care about drunken elephants or rice wine. What does she care about?

Posted on November 16, 2007March 31, 2008

Mongolian megafish

Mongolians protect giant trout by not eating it. More for everybody else, I guess.

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Fresh Nibbles

    1. King Charles III talks about seeds with Dr Elinor Breman of Kew’s Millennium Seed Bank and…
    2. …Cate Blanchett.
    3. Or read about it in The Economist.
    4. Or watch a nice video.
    5. The seed banks of the National Plant Germplasm System in the USA are for farmers, not just researchers.
    6. How to get stuff out of the NPGS.
    7. Laurajean Lewis: from an NPGS genebank to CIMMYT’s.
    8. I’m sure she and Chris Mujjabi will get to know each other soon.
    9. Diane Ragone: Not all genebanks are seed banks.
    10. Not a lot of breadfruits in Belgium but, surprisingly, lots of bananas.

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