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For decades, ecologists have known that how a species looks or eats affects its environment. But a new study by researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, shows that social behavior ...

As wildlife tourism grows, scientists are asking a bigger question: can we bring people closer to nature without reshaping the ecosystems they came to see?

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