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      Endangered Tattoos: Volunteers Get Inked to Help Save Species [Slide Show]

      Mammals, plants, even fungi are emblazoned on humans who fight for their emblem’s survival

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      Endangered Tattoos: Volunteers Get Inked to Help Save Species [Slide Show]
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      • STEPHEN MEDEEMA, NARROW-LEAVED HELLEBORINE This orchid can grow to 60 centimeters (two feet) tall and support up to 20 white-and-yellow flowers. Photo by Anatomy Project
      • KELLY PARISH, TALL THRIFT Two nature reserves near Ancaster, England, aim to bring this flowering plant back. Photo by Anatomy Project
      • CALI LELLIOTT, SAND LIZARD: This brown lizard is now limited to living on sand dunes along England’s northwestern coast. Photo by Tom Bing
      • STUART BARNS, STRIPED DOLPHIN: This marine mammal sports blue and white stripes on its flanks, and is a member of a toothless whale family. Photo by Tom Bing
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      • SALLY MCGEE, RAMPION BELLFLOWER: Rapunzel, locked away in a tower in the Brothers Grimm fairy tale, was named after this purple plant’s scientific moniker: Campanula rapunculus. Photo by Tom Bing
      • CHRISTOPHER DAVIES, NORFOLK HAWKER DRAGONFLY: The brown insect has clear wings and a yellow triangle on its abdomen and is found only in a few unpolluted marshes. Photo by Tom Bing
      • VICTORIA TURNBULL, CHAMOMILE: This plant is a disappearing variety of the type commonly used in herbal tea. Photo by Tom Bing
      • HUW SPANNER, WHITE TAILED EAGLE: A close cousin of the bald eagle, this raptor lives in Europe and Asia and has a wing span of more than two meters. Photo by Andrew Firth
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