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His nephew recalled that the children were taught to chant, “Hyaenas are beautiful!” as often as possible.On visits to Kruger National Park, he got them

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By some accounts, in the Philippine reefs of the 1970s, large groupers appeared every 50 feet or so. Some seemed as large as Volkswagen Beetles.