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Backyard jungles

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Stuart Pimm explores today's collision between bears, beavers and US suburbanites.

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  1. Stuart Pimm is professor of conservation at the Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA, and author of The World According to Pimm: A Scientist Audits the Earth.,

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