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		<title>Cape Verde Fauna (Beasts and Birds)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 12:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jill Dickin Schinas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Discounting domestic animals, there are only 13 species of mammal resident in the Cape Verde islands. Three of them are bats, one is a mongoose, and the others are all dolphins and whales &#8211; which is cheating, if you ask me. There are also 19 or 20 reptiles living here &#8211; but don&#8217;t panic, because none of them are snakes. In fact, five of them are turtles, which come here to breed, and the others are all lizards, skinks, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cape Verde Flora</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 12:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jill Dickin Schinas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unless you have never visited the islands and have been entirely fooled by the name, flora will be the last thing that comes to mind when you think of the Cape Verdes &#8211; but in fact the place is actually quite interesting to a devoted botanist. Of the plants which somehow managed to reach the archipelago without man&#8217;s intervention (thereby earning themselves the name of indigenous species) there are 80 which have evolved to become genetically different from their ancestors [...]]]></description>
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		<title>David Wingate &#8211; The Bird Man of Bermuda</title>
		<link>http://www.yachtmollymawk.com/2010/12/bermuda-david-wingate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2010 16:10:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roxanne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I wish I could introduce you to David Wingate,&#8221; said Gill. &#8220;He&#8217;s our local naturalist, and he&#8217;d love to answer all of these questions that you keep asking.&#8221; We were standing on the wooden platform which surrounds Gill and John&#8217;s house on their little islet in Bermuda, looking down towards a round black hole bored into the rock below. Inside that hole, I knew, was a plump, one week old tropic bird chick. But that was all I knew. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Ship’s Naturalist</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Oct 2010 11:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roxanne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article by Roxanne appeared in somewhat abridged form in the RSBP&#8217;s junior magazine, Birdlife, last year. I was born on a boat, and ever since I was a baby we have lived aboard the boat and sailed wherever we want to go. I have never lived in a house, although I have occasionally lived in a caravan or a camper van, in different parts of the world. I wonder if it is to this gipsy lifestyle that I owe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dolphins</title>
		<link>http://www.yachtmollymawk.com/2010/03/dolphins/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roxanne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this family there is one thing which really gets everyone rushing around, and that is dolphins. In the Mar Menor we didn&#8217;t see any dolphins &#8211; they don&#8217;t come into that lagoon &#8211; but Mummy and Daddy were always full of stories about heavisides dolphins here, and pilot whales there. It seems that even sightings made before I was born, twelve years ago, are still remembered in detail! There was the story about the first time Xoë and Caesar [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fish of the Rocky Shore</title>
		<link>http://www.yachtmollymawk.com/2010/01/gomera-fish-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 12:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roxanne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beneath the waters of La Gomera there are not only large stretches of sand, but also a plentiful supply of rocky areas. For me, this makes the place very interesting, because I can watch both habitats at the same time and see the very different fish which live in each of them. The bigger fish living on the sandy bottoms rely on hunting smaller fish, and since there is no plant life there the smaller fish are scavengers. All of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who lives on the sandy bottom under our boat?</title>
		<link>http://www.yachtmollymawk.com/2009/11/gomera-fish/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roxanne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Ship&#8217;s Naturalist is a kind-hearted girl who wouldn&#8217;t hurt a fly. She might catch it and feed it to a toad, of course, but she wouldn&#8217;t swat one. Nor does she eat dead pigs, cows, rabbits, sheep, or chickens &#8211; but she does have a weakness: she loves fish. At the age of four, when asked to make a list of her favourite things, Roxanne wrote, &#8220;Fish, Mummy, Chocolate.&#8221; Over the course of the past eight years the list [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stingrays</title>
		<link>http://www.yachtmollymawk.com/2009/10/rays/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roxanne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you visit the local tourist office then they&#8217;ll tell you that Valle Gran Rey was named after the Big King who once lived in this valley &#8211; but we know better. We reckon it was named by a Frenchman who was seriously impressed with the local sealife. I first heard about the rays while we were anchored in Valle Gran Rey, in the Canary Islands. There was a rumour going around the cruising boats. Apparently a huge ray lived [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chicken Ship</title>
		<link>http://www.yachtmollymawk.com/2009/10/chickens/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roxanne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year she raised a couple of seagulls. This year there were no baby gulls to rescue, and so Roxanne has been trying her hand as a chicken farmer. Before I was born, when my family were sailing around in their yacht off West Africa, they decided to try keeping chickens. Captain Cook kept chickens on his ship and so they thought they would do the same thing. They thought they would have fresh eggs everyday. However, the result was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rox to the Rescue (A Tale of Toads and Frogs)</title>
		<link>http://www.yachtmollymawk.com/2009/10/toads/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:17:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roxanne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a while quite a while since you heard from the Ship&#8217;s Naturalist, but that&#8217;s not because she hasn&#8217;t been writing; it&#8217;s because her back-up team haven&#8217;t been typing&#8230; Herewith, an article which Roxanne penned many moons ago, during our visit to Melilla. It was while we were in England that I met my first toads. They were found under a caravan awning on the campsite where we lived. I put the first one in a deep box with [...]]]></description>
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