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A handout photo provided on March 8, 2017 by Nature shows a Mariana fruit dove (Ptilinopus roseicapilla) eating a fruit from a Premna serratifolia in Saipan in 2013. A non- native snake species that has already wiped out most of Guam' s tree- dwelling birds is also decimating the Pacific island' s forests, researchers said on March 8, 2017. Growth of new trees on the US island territory may have dropped by as much as 92 percent due to the snake' s presence, they reported in the journal Nature Communications. (Photo by Lainie Berry/AFP Photo/Nature Publishing)
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