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      <image:caption>Supercooling livers. [Photo credit: Jeffrey Andree (MGH photography department), Dr. Reinier de Vries, and Dr. Korkut Uygun.]</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Crested lark singing. Artemy Voikhansky, via Wikimedia Commons. Distributed under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Coppery titi monkeys. Sofya Dolotovskaya, used with permission.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Adult female Hainan gibbon is golden yellow with a black crown patch, while immature gibbons are black regardless of their gender, resembling that of an adult male. Credit: Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>African wild dog. Photo: Mathias Appel, via Wikimedia Commons.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Male Balearic lizard basking on a dead horse arum spathe. Source: Ana Pérez-Cembranos, used with permission.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>OpenStax Anatomy and PhysiologyOpenStax, via Wikimedia Commons. Distributed under a CC BY 4.0 license.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy - histology. Thiene et al. Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2007 2:45 doi:10.1186/1750-1172-2-45.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Domestic chickens. Per Jensen, with permission.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Mother-pup pair of the greater sac-winged bat, Saccopteryx bilineata, in their daytime roost. The pup (dark fur color) is holding on to the mother´s belly (light fur color). Photo credit: Michael Stifter.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Adenovirus-mediated gene therapy. National Institutes of Health.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Debs, via Flickr. Distributed under a CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 license.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Markus Trienke, via Wikimedia Commons. Distributed under a CC BY-SA 3.0 license.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Male northern bottlenose whale. Cephas/Whitehead Lab, via Wikimedia Commons.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Biometric data taken during professional squash matches are displayed onscreen. (Photo Courtesy of the PSA World Tour.)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Grey reef shark. NOAA Photo Library, via Wikimedia Commons.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Naked mole-rat. John Brighenti, via Flickr. Distributed under a CC BY SA 2.0 license.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A rescuer, marked with green, bites at the nylon thread holding the victim (marked in red) in place. Paul Devienne (PLoS ONE 2009).</image:caption>
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