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Becke describes the behaviour of a variety of creatures occupying a number of groups of islands in the Pacific. His anecdotes include, among others: saltwater-drinking cockatoos and pigeons in New Britain; birds that whistle hermit crabs from their shells in Tuvalu; and the revulsion that the natives of the Caroline Islands feel for eels.
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New Britain,
cPapua New Guinea,cPacific Region,
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cTuvalu,cSouth Pacific, Pacific Region,
- North Pacific, Pacific Region,
- Great Barrier Reef, Australian seas,
- Caroline Islands, North Pacific, Pacific Region,
- ca. 1881
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