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February 9, 2012— "This doesn't look good," says National Geographic Young Explorer Shayna Liberman. Young rivals are menacing a wild gelada monkey patriarch in Ethiopia, eager for control of his females and offspring. Hours pass, blood spills, and power changes hands.
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Artist William Wegman discusses shooting the February 2012 cover of National Geographic magazine in his studio and home. The video features Wegman's dogs: Penny, Candy, Bobbin and Flo.
The February issue, on newsstands now, features a cover story on dog genomes. It is also available on digital newsstands and in the App Store now. Additional interactives in the issue include: behind-the-scenes video of photographer Robert Clark shooting portraits of dogs at the Westminster Dog Show, eyewitness footage of the tsunami that reached Japan's coast on March 11, 2011 and audio of a National Geographic team trying to reach Papa New Guinea's reclusive Meakambut clan by jungle telephone.
For more on William Wegman: http://www.facebook.com/WilliamWegman.
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May 10, 2012 — Researchers have uncovered a remarkably well-preserved Maya mural and calendar markings that add perspective on Maya thinking.
National Geographic Society grantee William Saturno and his team uncovered the artwork in what was either a home or workplace abandoned hundreds of years ago. The findings are published in the May 11 issue of the journal Science and the June edition of National Geographic magazine.
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September 2, 2011 — Camera-trap footage of an African golden cat preening and hunting in Gabon may be the first publicly-released video of the little-understood wild cat, according to the cat conservation organization Panthera.
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Bear's-eye view: Watch what happens when National Geographic's Crittercam attaches a small camera onto a big three-year-old brown bear cub.
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See what could be the first professional footage of elusive Cross River gorillas, the most endangered subspecies of gorilla, filmed in Cameroon.
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The vampire squid can turn itself "inside out" to avoid predators. This video was released by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute to emphasize the need to protect species like this in the deep oceans from the effects of human activities.
Read more about the squid's deep-sea environment:
http://www.mbari.org/news/news_releases/2010/deep-conservation/deep-conservation-release.html
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This National Geographic Crittercam footage shows the eating habits of the Australian sea lion — including underwater video of a sea lion hunting a large octopus. The footage is from a project intended to help save the endangered sea lions, in part by uncovering where and how the animals eat.