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COVER PHOTO HEADLINE : Is this the world’s smartest bird? The population of kea has crashed. Will we lose them before we understand them?
CONTENTS : Departments : EDITORIAL -- VIEWFINDER Eagle helicopter -- GeoNEWS Moa dung, marine heatwaves, Cape Brett Hut -- PROFILE Bill Robertson -- LIFE Entropy -- BOOKS Big Pacific, The Camera in the Crowd -- HISTORY Fingerprints -- IN THE FIELD Rod Morris -- ON REFLECTION Singing up country.
CONTENTS : Features :
BIRDS OF PLAY : Kea are smarter and have more complex communication then previously thought -- but their numbers are rapidly declining.
STATE OF MIND : Researchers are striving to understand mental illness, which is now the third-highest cause of ill health in New Zealand.
BEETLEMANIA : A nondescript field in Cromwell is the world’s first - and only - sanctuary dedicated to the protection of an invertebrate.
P : Most of the stellar yachting careers of New Zealand’s America’s Cup sailors began in humble seven-foot boats - a class now a century old - designed by a Public Works employee who couldn’t swim, and who was too hard up to build anything larger.