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Decades on, Fleur suddenly reemerges — all white-faced and disoriented but not a day older — to enter a newspaper office and ask to place an ad looking for Chen-Pang.
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Nathan Smith, Vulture, 14 Feb. 2024
The living animals seized included sacred ibises, white-faced capuchins, tortoises and Burmese pythons, while the 28 dead animals included an alligator, a mandrill and a green-winged macaw, according to a search warrant.
—Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2023
Flocks of white-faced ibises flew overhead, their long beaks and legs stretched elegantly against the sky.
—Brooke Jarvis, New York Times, 31 May 2023
The study, published today in Science Advances, adds to another recent finding that Brazilian white-faced capuchin monkeys also produce stone flakes.
—Byvirginia Morell, science.org, 10 Mar. 2023
Nathan Smith, Vulture, 14 Feb. 2024
The living animals seized included sacred ibises, white-faced capuchins, tortoises and Burmese pythons, while the 28 dead animals included an alligator, a mandrill and a green-winged macaw, according to a search warrant.
—Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2023
Flocks of white-faced ibises flew overhead, their long beaks and legs stretched elegantly against the sky.
—Brooke Jarvis, New York Times, 31 May 2023
The study, published today in Science Advances, adds to another recent finding that Brazilian white-faced capuchin monkeys also produce stone flakes.
—Byvirginia Morell, science.org, 10 Mar. 2023
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