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Christine Dell'Amore

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As the the online natural history editor for National Geographic's daily news website, I am the guru for anything animal. (My favorite? It's a tie between the dung beetle and the coyote.)

In my free time, I travel—and often write about my adventures for the Washington Post. I’m happiest roaming abroad—I've been to more than 40 countries and reported from six continents, including Antarctica.

My Antarctica trip led to my first book, South Pole, which chronicles Robert Scott's 1912 expedition to Antarctica. I am also the author of a National Geographic magazine special issue, "Science of the Supernatural Revealed," published in 2015.

I co-founded and help administer the D.C. Science Writers Association's Newsbrief Award, which recognizes excelle
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Octobers in Africa

Looking for wildlife on a safari in South Africa in 2009

October is my favorite month, so it’s no surprise that I’ve been to Africa three Octobers in a row. 

In 2017, I was lucky enough to visit my favorite continent for a National Geographic magazine story on parrots. I wasn’t sure if I was going to see any in the wild—South Africa’s endemic parrot, the Cape parrot, is critically endangered—but

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“Advice? I don’t have advice. Stop aspiring and start writing. If you’re writing, you’re a writer. Write like you’re a goddamn death row inmate and the governor is out of the country and there’s no chance for a pardon. Write like you’re clinging to the edge of a cliff, white knuckles, on your last breath, and you’ve got just one last thing to say, like you’re a bird flying over us and you can see everything, and please, for God’s sake, tell us something that will save us from ourselves. Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that we’re not alone. Write like you have a message from the king. Or don’t. Who knows, maybe you’re one of the lucky ones who doesn’t have to.”
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