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COVER PHOTO HEADLINE : CAN AI CRACK THE CODE In a feeding frenzy, sharks, birds, dolphins and fish work together, a life and death dance.
CONTENTS : Departments : UP FRONT EDITORIAL -- IN THE FIELD -- VIEWFINDER Becki Moss documents the drama and intimacy of two vogue balls -- GeoNEWS Once upon a time, New Zealand had beech trees that flamed red and gold in autumn: our colourful songbirds are at risk of poaching; why comet heads glow green; untangling the origins of plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch -- PROFILE How Samuel Purdie fell for the jewel-tone Tautuku gecko -- JUST SO Do spiders dream? And why on earthdo we big-brained humans sleep the least of all the primates?
REFLECTION CULTURE New books on native sea creatures (and our bottomless appetite for them) and an 18th-centure female convict who might have been a pirate -- HISTORY The story of ill-fated Ngapuhi chief Te Pahi - and the return of the taonga, missing for more than 200 years.
CONTENTS : Features :
THE PREPPERS NEXT DOOR When Tom Doig started reading about doomsday preppers and survivalist subcultures, his first question was : What if they're crazy? His second question was : What if they're right?
LET THERE BE DARK The glare and babel of tourism have left the Nelson cave spider with precious few footholds.
HERITAGE IN THE GUN You find something, something old, something with a story to tell. But who do you tell?
PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR New Zealand, this is your life - as told via the most poignant and arresting frames from the last 12 months.