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Butterflies Return

Noah talks to Prof. Thomas Emmel at the University of Florida in Gainesville, who on Monday will release 800 rare Schaus Swllowtails butterflies into the wild. Emmel started breeding the butterflies in his kitchen in 1992 when the population of the butterflies had been reduced to only 17.

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