14 new species discovered in Brazil's cerrado


	14 new species discovered in Brazil's cerrado

BirdBarista

4-29-2008 5:30 PM

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BirdBarista says:

You can read my post about coffee growing in the Cerrado region here:
http://tinyurl.com/5kqjuc

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The research team, which included scientists from Conservation International (CI) and Brazilian universities, found 14 species believed new to science — including eight fish, three reptiles, one amphibian, one mammal, and one bird </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0429-cerrado.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/news.mongabay.com/img/FF38EBE9-7575-4C7B-8744-174D03D16FE1" alt="" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/35B4F5D3-A1A4-4CC7-B5D9-B1821B040DE8/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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