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Taxonomy: The spy who loved frogs

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To track the fate of threatened species, a young scientist must follow the jungle path of a herpetologist who led a secret double life.

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  1. Brendan Borrell is a biologist-turned-journalist based in New York. He contributed to a 2007 review paper on gliding animals, which also included work by Brown.

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Borrell, B. Taxonomy: The spy who loved frogs. Nature 501, 150–153 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/501150a

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