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The Cambridge Animal Alphabet series celebrates Cambridge’s connections with animals through literature, art, science and society.

Here, X is for Xenarthran. A must-have item for 15th-century collectors of ‘curiosities’ and a source of fascination for evolutionary biologist Dr Robert Asher.

Read by Lesley Steinitz.

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