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Volume 23, Number 9
05 May 2004

pp 1911-2017

Suricate standing on its back legs � a typical behaviour of this small animal when looking out for potential predators. The picture was taken by Thierry Moreau at the La Haute-Touche animal park, with a Canon EOS-1V and a 500 mm lens. The park is owned by the French National Museum of Natural History and set in a 500 ha forest in the center of France. A unique collection of various deers of the world is hosted there, many part of international conservation programmes. The photographer is a Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Tours, France.

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