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Are elephants used in tourism in Thailand cracked and if yes why is it possible to take the infants away?
Yes, there are reports of this happening. A quote from Time:
According to wildlife-advocacy group TRAFFIC, poachers in Burma, officially known as Myanmar, corral elephants into jungle pits, after ...
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What type of insect is this orange-camouflaged creature?
That is a species of longhorn beetle called Aristobia approximator. There are two or three different species that live in my region but I wasn't familiar with this particular one which is quite ...
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What type of centipede is this?
From what i can tell, and the little bit of research i did it appears to be a "Flat backed millipede" or part of the Polydesmida family, of which there are a huge variety and many are hard to tell ...
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