Plus, MLK’s broader legacy; a link to women’s tumors; the beauty of mushrooms
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| | They are graceful, playful. They hug each other and give each other shoulder rides (above). Can you imagine a world without sea otters?
It almost happened a century ago, after they were overhunted for their fur. But now, the otters are back, delighting tourists, and protectors want to reintroduce them to other parts of their onetime habitat.
Not everyone, however, is on the welcome wagon, Cynthia Gorney discovers. There’s a reason.
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| | Darth Vader? That’s what the suits are called that humans use while nourishing rescued otters. The suits disguise a rescuer’s shape and smell to prevent the young otters from associating humans with comfort or food once they return to the wild. Read more. | | | |
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 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY CENTRAL PRESS/GETTY | | From the mountaintop: Every third Monday in January, Martin Luther King, Jr. (above) is praised for his peaceful efforts to get voting rights and other civil rights legislation. But King knew equality required education, wage equity, peace, housing, and economic justice, Nat Geo reports. Any “spiritual and moral lag” in humanity, King once said, is due to racial injustice, poverty, and war.
Related: How MLK came to be?
Also: A pocket of NYC where Black ownership thrives
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| | Viper love: Why not? Nat Geo Explorer Tim Laman caught the cuddling reptiles while on assignment to document biodiversity in a national park in Indonesia. Here, a male Bornean green pit viper (Tropidolaemus subannulatus) snuggles on the much larger female. Their colors match the verdant background, a common technique in the wild. | | | |
 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY RORY PRIOR, ALAMY | | Glasgow’s unlikely saint: He was born to a “witch”—and legend has it that his mom, with him in utero, was tossed off a cliff. St. Mungo survived, and would later found this Scottish city, which remembers him with festivities each January. (Pictured above, a modern-day depiction of the saint on a Glasgow building.)
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Today's soundtrack: If It’s Magic, Stevie Wonder
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