fantastic-beasts-posterAfter reading Stuart Pimm‘s essay “O brave new world of fantastic beasts” in Nature‘s A View from the Bridge blog, I was delighted to discover that others had found, and were puzzling over, similar undercurrents of natural history, ecology, and conservation to those I had noticed in the recently released film Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.

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