{"id":24671,"date":"2023-02-08T14:38:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T13:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/?p=24671&#038;preview=true&#038;preview_id=24671"},"modified":"2023-02-13T10:16:52","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T09:16:52","slug":"from-the-bbc-wildlife-archive-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/2023\/02\/08\/from-the-bbc-wildlife-archive-5\/","title":{"rendered":"From the BBC Wildlife Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5 class=\"has-text-align-center sans-serif article-subhead has-ccp-primary-light-color has-ccp-primary-dark-background-color has-text-color has-background\"><strong>FROM THE <em>BBC <em><strong>WILDLIFE <\/strong><\/em><\/em><strong>ARCHIVE<\/strong><\/strong>: <strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-ccp-secondary-dark-color\">January 1988<\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center sans-serif article-subhead\"><strong>The wars of the 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\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n<p>A northern elephant seal photographed by Frans Lanting is the cover star of the March 1989 issue of <em>BBC Wildlife. <\/em>\u201cThe North American seal whose male is famous for being big, bellicose and endowed by evolution with a cauliflower snout has a scientific name \u2013 <em>Mirounga angustirostris <\/em>\u2013 that combines a native Australian word for an Antarctic animal with the Latin name for \u2018narrow nose\u2019,\u201d says biologist Burney Le Boeuf. \u201cClearly, there has been a mistake\u201d, he says. \u201cIt bears little resemblance to the animal\u2019s looks or origins and is downright misleading.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<section class=\"wp-block-uagb-section uagb-section__wrap uagb-section__background-color uagb-block-a5ac0afc-1816-48e7-a4e5-5436e0dcd5d3\"><div class=\"uagb-section__overlay\"><\/div><div class=\"uagb-section__inner-wrap\">\n<h5 class=\"has-text-align-center\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-ccp-primary-dark-color\">NEXT ISSUE<\/span><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"has-text-align-center sans-serif article-subhead\"><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-ccp-secondary-dark-color\"><strong><strong>THREE-SPINED STICKLEBACKS<\/strong><\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"no-tts wp-block-image article-in-image photo is-style-default\"><figure class=\"no-tts aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2023\/02\/T6DMA2_cmyk_preview-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"no-tts wp-image-24682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2023\/02\/T6DMA2_cmyk_preview-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2023\/02\/T6DMA2_cmyk_preview-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2023\/02\/T6DMA2_cmyk_preview-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2023\/02\/T6DMA2_cmyk_preview-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, 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