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Speaker 1: From Mediator's World News headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. This is

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Speaker 1: Kel's we Can review with Ryan kel Kellen. Now Here's Kel.

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Speaker 1: A man in Kensington, New Hampshire, strangled at coyote to

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Speaker 1: death after it attacked his two year old son. If

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Speaker 1: you listen to last week's episode about the Chicago coyote

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Speaker 1: that attacked and hospitalized a five year old human, you

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Speaker 1: may be thinking another attack. O'really Yes, and it's O'Reilly

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Speaker 1: Ian o'reiley Ian. The father was hiking with his family

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Speaker 1: when he noticed a coyote approaching. The coyote grabbed O'Reilly's

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Speaker 1: son by the hood of his jacket dragged him to

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Speaker 1: the ground. The boy's mother acted quickly and was able

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Speaker 1: to separate the coyote from her son before the boy

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Speaker 1: could be bitten. Ian O'Reilly rushed it between the coyote

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Speaker 1: and his family. He absorbed several aggressive attacks and received

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Speaker 1: bites the arm and chest. When he realized the animal

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Speaker 1: wasn't going to leave, he kicked it in the jaw

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Speaker 1: and pinned it to the ground. He was then able

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Speaker 1: to grab the coyotes snout with one hand and place

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Speaker 1: his other on its windpipe. After a nearly ten minute struggle.

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Speaker 1: O'Reilly managed to kill the kyote. Earlier that morning, to

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Speaker 1: other coyote attacks were reported, likely involving the same animal.

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Speaker 1: The first attack happened in the town of Hampton Falls

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Speaker 1: at eight forty am, when local police received a report

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Speaker 1: of a coyote attacking a vehicle. Then shortly after, at

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Speaker 1: nine am, a woman called the Kensington Police to report

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Speaker 1: that she and her two dogs had been attacked by

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Speaker 1: a coyote. All three were bitten and received rabies treatment.

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Speaker 1: The woman, Pat Lee, sixty two years old, said, I

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Speaker 1: was running behind the dogs to get them in and

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Speaker 1: just as I was here, literally, the coyote bit me

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Speaker 1: in the butt. The New Hampshire Fishing Game is testing

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Speaker 1: the animal for rabies, a probable cause for his kind

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Speaker 1: of behavior. Oh Riley received his first round of rabies

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Speaker 1: treatment immediately after the attack, but has four more remaining. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: he's becoming all too familiar with the process. O'Reilly's four

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Speaker 1: year old son was bitten by a rabid raccoon last year.

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Speaker 1: What the heck is going on in New Hampshire. According

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Speaker 1: to the CDC, five thousand animal rabies cases are reported

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Speaker 1: each year, most of them occur in wildlife common hosts

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Speaker 1: or bats, raccoons, skunks, and foxes. Rabies is almost always

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Speaker 1: fatal to humans once symptoms appear. If you're bitten or

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Speaker 1: scratched by a wild animal, you should seek medical attention immediately.

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Speaker 1: Coyotes generally avoid humans, but in some cases they can

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Speaker 1: become aggressive, usually when sick or emaciated. Coyotes, like pigeons, geese,

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Speaker 1: and deer, have adapted to thrive in the wildlife urban

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Speaker 1: towns and cities, though they are generally a much bigger

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Speaker 1: threat to pets than humans. People living in areas with

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Speaker 1: coyotes should be aware that the animals can occasionally threaten humans,

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Speaker 1: especially small children. Attacks are rare, but if you are attacked,

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Speaker 1: doze O'Reilly did and fight back. This week we've got

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Speaker 1: tar heels, water, elk recreation, and so much more. But

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Speaker 1: first I'm gonna tell you about my week at all

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Speaker 1: sorts of stuff going on. Logistics planning for a big

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Speaker 1: back country ice fishing trip, cooked up some antelope and

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Speaker 1: mule deer shanks for the Super Bowl. I toted it

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Speaker 1: a mule deer quarter to the Northwest Sportsman's Expo in Portland,

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Speaker 1: where Steven Ronella, Daniel Pruett, Sam Longern and myself put

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Speaker 1: on a butchering and cooking demonstration. The mule deer quarter

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Speaker 1: was what someone describe as a true quarter, which means

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Speaker 1: I used my steel battery powered chainsaw who happens to

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Speaker 1: power this podcast to cut down the spine and through

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Speaker 1: the pelvis of the deer. Typically, if one were to

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Speaker 1: half of pelvis and vertebra. The benefit to a true

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Speaker 1: quarter is the bones will protect the meat that attaches

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Speaker 1: to them from being exposed to dirt or hair and

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Speaker 1: will not dry out as it isn't exposed to air either.

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Speaker 1: The benefit to de boning at the hip joint is

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Speaker 1: it's a better option if you're trying to save weight

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Speaker 1: and don't have a saw. We met lots of great

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Speaker 1: folks there in Portland's and I just want to take

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Speaker 1: a minute or right now to say thank you to

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Speaker 1: everyone who showed up and all of you listen to

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Speaker 1: Cal's we can review. So thanks. We're gonna move into

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Speaker 1: a couple of quick listener emails. I probably shouldn't just

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Speaker 1: just listening when you hear some of the stuff that

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Speaker 1: you know I talked about on here. Anyway, here's one.

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Speaker 1: What's your take on bird feeders? I have several and

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Speaker 1: like to watch the chicken, seas, nut hatches, cardinals, juncos,

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Speaker 1: old lady across the road has enough feeders to feed

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Speaker 1: the entire counties. Foul? Do I need to have a

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Speaker 1: chat with her or myself? Excellent question. Have a buddy

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Speaker 1: named Wally that is a great example of a good

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Speaker 1: bird feeder. We used to go sit in his backyard

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Speaker 1: and watch the birds come into specific feeders throughout the year.

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Speaker 1: This was right on a wildlife corridor with lots of deer,

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Speaker 1: some moose, and black bears, right on the edge of Haley, Idaho.

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Speaker 1: Oh Wally never had an issue, including with outdoor cats,

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Speaker 1: and here's why there was no surplus food. He researched

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Speaker 1: feeders worth of seed to get to the feed that

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Speaker 1: the bird wanted, which all so means no surplus food

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Speaker 1: comfortable and only fed a certain amount every day. As

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Speaker 1: we have hit many times, the danger of feeding wildlife

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Speaker 1: is real. With birds too, Disease transmission like house finch

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Speaker 1: eye disease could take over your feeder. The Auto Bond

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Speaker 1: Society recommends high quality feed feeders specific to the habits

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Speaker 1: of the birds in your area. In cleaning your feeders

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Speaker 1: with a ten percent non chlorinated bleach solution at a

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Speaker 1: bare minimum, like if you're totally lazy in between seasons,

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Speaker 1: preferably you're cleaning them several times a year, Katie writes

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Speaker 1: in letting me Know why wildlife officers will use a

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Speaker 1: taser in lieu of a tranquilizer gun. A taser will

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Speaker 1: briefly incapacitate an animal, such as a buck with its

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Speaker 1: antlers wrapped in a backyard hammock, alling a wildlife officer

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Speaker 1: enough time to free the deer. Tranquilizers run the risk

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Speaker 1: you think about it. Moving on to North Carolina, the

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Speaker 1: tar heel state. North Carolina was at one point one

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Speaker 1: of the world's largest producers of tar, turpentine, pitch, resin,

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Speaker 1: and other such quote naval stores stuff used for building ships.

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Speaker 1: but it came to become a source of pride during

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Speaker 1: a rally newspaper quoting a Confederate soldier who claimed he

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Speaker 1: and his North Carolinian compatriots had stood their ground in

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Speaker 1: while others from a more oily state had retreated. North

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Speaker 1: Carolinians standing their ground actually has a lot to do

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Speaker 1: They have some interesting debates going on regarding public access

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Speaker 1: public lands. First, stream access. Like several eastern state it's

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Speaker 1: North Carolina's stream access laws date back to when rivers

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Speaker 1: the years, that formed into a public trust doctrine, and

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Speaker 1: the North Carolina Supreme Court affirmed in that streams that

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Speaker 1: Navigable in fact, is how that gets summed up, as

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Speaker 1: it should be, but it isn't. There's plenty of little,

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Speaker 1: tiny trout streams that you couldn't dream of getting a

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Speaker 1: waterways that are not so straightforward. This issue has come

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Speaker 1: back into the spotlight recently in regard to the Mills River,

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Speaker 1: North Carolina. Back in September, they had a town council

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Speaker 1: This particular individual had been also accused of harassing folks

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Speaker 1: sounds like that issue on the Mills River was resolved amicably,

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Speaker 1: but many people believe it speaks to an increasing pattern

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Speaker 1: Another major flashpoint for this issue is the Chattooga River,

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Speaker 1: where a private sportsman's club has installed cattle yates, fencing,

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Speaker 1: they view as theirs. There's also a federal restriction on

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Speaker 1: that the Upper Chattooga is a fifty two mile long

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Speaker 1: federally designated Wild and Scenic River American Whitewater has been

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Speaker 1: in litigation over this paddling ban. It seems like a

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Speaker 1: a number of angling groups. Seems like there's some room

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Speaker 1: of it. While the Chachuga situation is not the same

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Speaker 1: Mills River figured out their fight as a community and

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Speaker 1: came to a you know, group situation. Way to go

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Speaker 1: Mills River. Either way, it goes to show that these

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Speaker 1: easy for a landowner to toss up a no trustpassing

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Speaker 1: to protest what may be an illegal action. That's why

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Speaker 1: it's so important that we stay vigilant. If you're interested

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Speaker 1: out American whitewater and back country hunters and anglers to

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Speaker 1: the group's working the hardest to keep your rivers and

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Speaker 1: else you want to do out there. I would also

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Speaker 1: suggest getting involved in North Carolina Trout Unlimited and see

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Speaker 1: what middle ground you can find or you know, calm waters. Perhaps.

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Speaker 1: Though the tar Heel state public landowners seem to be

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Speaker 1: what days they can hunt. Only a couple of years

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Speaker 1: after the name tar Heel entered the public lexicon, North

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Speaker 1: Carolina band hunting on Sundays in eighteen sixty nine. This

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Speaker 1: is what folks call a blue law. Old regulations there

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Speaker 1: were meant to encourage or force church attendance on the Sabbath.

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Speaker 1: Eleven still have some form of ban on Sunday hunting.

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Speaker 1: Well after a hundred and fifty years on the books,

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Speaker 1: As developments push further and further into the wilds, elk

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Speaker 1: this virus, China imposed a eemporary ban on selling and

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Speaker 1: zero for this virus and the problem of Guangdong. This

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Speaker 1: It took him seventeen years of diving with seals to

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Speaker 1: man now. While the clapping in captivity is more of

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Speaker 1: a form of entertainment for the excitable onlookers, this clapping

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