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The characters in this story are elephants, rhinos and people. Time to meet them. We will start with the animals.
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Martin, B. (2019). The Animals: Elephants, Rhinos and People. In: Survival or Extinction?. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13293-4_2
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