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Searching for Praying Mantises in the Brazilian Amazon

Mantis expert Gavin Svenson heads to the Brazilian amazon to sample the diversity of mantises in the forest. It is important for Svenson to understand the and quantify the number of mantises in the amazon, he describes the problems with declines in that we cannot know what we are losing if we don’t know what we even have. Svenson wants to find a mantis he described and named after his daughter.
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Clip Season 1 Episode 3 Length 10:07 Premiere: 05/19/25

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