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Hi! I’m Kate Sprogis, an Australian marine mammal biologist. The last article I co-wrote for The Conversation with Dr David Hocking was on the complex way bottlenose dolphins catch and kill their prey. We hoped it would reach a general audience, the young and old. It ended up getting more than 250,000 reads, went viral on Facebook, and led to dozens of republications or follow up articles including in the New York Times, BBC, and National Graphic. The Conversation has been an excellent outlet for science communication to the general public, which is an important component to science.
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