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Nature

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Film-maker Huw Cordey witnesses one of the Amazon's great wildlife spectacles - the arribada or mass nesting of the rare giant river turtle. In a period of two weeks, thousands of female turtles haul themselves up on to the sand bars in the middle of the River Xingu, but whether the eggs hatch is a lottery.

(Repeated from yesterday 9pm)

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