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Mar 2024
52m 36s

On birds, fathers and fairy possums

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Ecologist David Lindenmayer first went into the Mountain Ash forests of Victoria in search of the tiny Leadbeater Possum, and he discovered an amazing world of songbirds, rare gliders, and fierce leeches 
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