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The Falkland Islands are home to the Johnny Rook, a rare and ravenous bird of prey. Young males gang up to tackle bigger game, like a baby fur seal.
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Researcher Mike Fay finds a chigoe flea, or chigger, burrowing into his body. Do you know what to do if a pregnant chigger gets under your skin?
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Girth, grit and training can bring victory in Japan's most beloved traditional sport. Sumo wrestling dates back to Shinto ceremonies more than 1,000 years old; its traditions dictate everything from pre-show rituals to the wrestlers' diet.
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A snowy owl father hunts around the clock for lemmings to feed to his hungry chicks. Mortality for owlets is high in the arctic; a stockpile of lemmings can help them survive during bad weather, when hunting is difficult.
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A bite from a rattlesnake can be lethal, but most snakebite victims survive their encounter. Do you know what to do if a rattlesnake bites you?
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Many villagers in the Indonesian village of Toraja believe the soul doesn't leave the body until a funeral is held. Until a family can afford a worthy sendoff, the corpse often remains at the family home, where it's treated like a living family member.
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Tim Samaras spent more than 30 years researching tornadoes. Samaras submitted this footage to National Geographic in the weeks leading up to his death, as part of his last storm-research expedition. His son Paul and fellow storm chaser Carl Young also died in the El Reno, Oklahoma, tornado.
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Visit the Becton Sewage Treatment Works—one of Europe's biggest plants—which processes sewage from 3.4 million Londoners into water clean enough to return to the Thames.
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Kutti pi, a delicacy in parts of India, is either delicious or disgusting, depending on whom you ask. It's an animal's fetus — in this case, a goat's — and it's so taboo that some vendors won't sell it if a camera is rolling.
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To an Aboriginal Australian, homeland is not just where you are born. It is where you will die and be buried. It is the center of gravity, heart and soul, beginning and end. While covering this month's story on these first Australians, photographer Amy Toensing was invited to document a ceremony not performed in many years, to bring the souls of ancestors back home.
Click here to read the article: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/06/aboriginal-australians/finkel-text.