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Follow along as Young Explorer Grantee Sarah Calhoun discovers the rhythms of live among traditional fishermen, hoping to use their knowledge to better monitor and protect their beautiful natural environment.
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The autumn of 2012 in the Sultanate of Oman was a full display of celebration, custom, and color with coinciding important festivals.
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In a paper spent many months in the making, Susan Finkbeiner’s report on communal butterfly roosting was released to the public March 21, 2012. The paper closely analyzes the behavior of the Heliconius, also referred to as the passion-vine butterfly, a species of tropical butterfly that exhibits curious communal tendencies. Susan seeks to learn why these insects decide to roost while several other adult butterfly species do not, begging the question “What’s the benefit of being a social butterfly?”
