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23/05/2020 GMT

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Can there really only be 60 harvests left in Earth's soil?

Can there really only be 60 harvests left in Earth's soil? Plus we meet the parrots who understand probability.

A listener asks if there can really only be 60 harvests left in Earth's soil. Are we heading for an agricultural Armageddon? Plus we meet the parrots who are the first animals, outside humans and great apes, to be shown to understand probability.



(image: the highly intelligent and endangered Kea parrots of New Zealand / Credit: Imogen Warren/Getty images)

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