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Trending today: animal stories, one fun and one not so fun. Not so fun: a study finding that a significant percentage of missing tetrapod species may be extinct. Fun: a story about how seagulls in Mallorca (however it’s pronounced) are integral to the success of the island’s olive crop – and how they prefer the juicier olives bred by humans to that so-called ‘natural’ stuff. Peh!

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