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This story appears in the September 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine ... Is the measure of an animal’s wildness equal to the distance it keeps from humans? The Ellesmere wolves ...

This story appears in the October 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. A naked mole rat. That was photographer Joel Sartore’s first model in 2006 when he began making studio portraits of ...