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Island Noahs Ark on Gatun Lake Attracts Scientific Attention
Barro Colorado Island in Gatun Lake Panama Canal hosts a natural laboratory with hundreds of species from the Americas including amphibians insects and mammals. Researchers led by Dr. David Fairchilds note new and exotic life including anteaters sloths jaguars and black howlers as scientists study evolution and species origins on this six square mile refuge.
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Gatun Lake
Panama Canal
South
Central America
Americas
Barro Colorado
Chagres
Barro Colorado Island
Morrow
Canal Zone
David Fairchilds
United States Department of Agriculture
Natentally
Animal Kingdom