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BBC Wildlife No. 13 Vol. 41

Travel deep into Hungary’s Börzsöny Mountains

THE COVER This month’s cover features a pair of golden-headed lion tamarins – one of the six star species in the new BBC series Big Little Journeys. “They are super small for a primate and very fast,” says camera operator Max Kölbl. “You have to imagine that the face of a tamarin is perhaps the size of a polar bear’s nose, so keeping in focus while they are moving is tricky.”

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WOT H E

NICK BAKER

The vampire spider gorges on “the proteinrich crimson sauce” within female mosquitoes P.32

GILLIAN BURKE

“There are ready-to-go natural solutions to meet the challenges of the climate crisis” P.1 5

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MARK CARWARDINE

Unfortunately, we’re unable to feature a column from Mark this month, but look out for him in a future issue

LUCY COOKE

“Female reindeer use their antlers to fight males over prime patches of lifesaving lichen” P.25

MIKE DILGER

The naturalist reminds us to look up this Christmas to enjoy ‘pied wags’ gathered in the trees P.28