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Interview to our March AaRCTikTalks speaker Lydia Hildebrand Furness

March 2025

Protecting the endangered Dugong through paleogenomics

At the beginning of the XVIII century, traveler and author Ernst Christoph Barchewitz was enjoying the view from his porch near the sea shore, when he suddenly came to observe the social behavior of a pair of dugongs during his stay on Letti Islands (Maluku, Indonesia) as a commanding officer. The female of the pair was captured and killed. The male subsequently allowed himself to be killed as well:  

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