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Island Ark
On West Africa’s stunningly diverse Bioko Island, rare primates are being slaughtered to feed a growing bush-meat trade.

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Photograph by Joel Sartore
(Scadoxus cinnabarinus)]]>
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Photograph by Joel Sartore
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Photograph by Joel Sartore
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Photograph by Joel Sartore
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Photograph by Tim Laman
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Photograph by Christian Ziegler
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Photograph by Tim Laman
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Photograph by Christian Ziegler
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Photograph by Joel Sartore
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Photograph by Christian Ziegler
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Photograph by Christian Ziegler
Bufo tuberosus is found from Cameroon to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Some members of its Bufonidae family have a gland that secretes a toxic goo potential predators find distasteful.]]>
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Gastropyxis smaragdina snakes through the trees on Bioko Island. There are nearly 2,500 species in its superfamily, the Colubroidea.]]>
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Photograph by Joel Sartore
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Photograph by Tim Laman
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Photograph by Tim Laman
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Photograph by Tim Laman
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Photograph by Joel Sartore
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Photograph by Joel Sartore
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Photograph by Joel Sartore
(lyssonycteris sp.) hangs with wings folded but will spend the evening hunting like other nocturnal predators on Bioko.]]>
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Photograph by Joel Sartore
(Hemidactylus fasciatus). ]]>
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Photograph by Christian Ziegler
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Photograph by Joel Sartore
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Photograph by Tim Laman
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Photograph by Tim Laman
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Photograph by Tim Laman
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