STORIES : Inbio, the researchers' Eden
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Parataxinomists are the men and women doing the field work of collecting specimens that will enlarge Inbio's collections. On the menu of the tedious collection work in the lepidopteron family, the traditional butterfly hunt. Here, Marcos Madrigal, one of the parataxinomists in full action.
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