National Geographic Waitt grantee Jean Boubli travels to Brazil's Amazon rain forest to search for a wedge-capped capuchin.

A NGS/Waitt grant enabled Michael Curran and his team to join a Darwin Initiative expedition to two isolated mountains in northern Mozambique to investigate the diverse patterns of bats.

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