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        "description": "<p>January 23, 2013\u2014A National Geographic explorer tries to understand the delicate mechanisms that make lying a wild success among plants. (Video courtesy Jacky Poon, <a href=\"http://www.jackypoon.org/\" target=\"_blank\">www.jackypoon.org</a> , Tim Laman and Ed Scholes.)</p>", 
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        "title": "Mimicry: The Art of Deception Among Orchids", 
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        "credit": "2013 National Geographic; video courtesy Jacky Poon, Tim Laman and Ed Scholes", 
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        "transcript": "<p>How far would you go to reproduce? Would you disguise yourself as someone else?</p><p>I'm Lucie McNeil, and this is National Geographic On Assignment\u2014your link to thousands of Nat Geo expeditions around the globe.</p><p>Today, we're off to the cloud forests of Northeastern Ecuador where National Geographic's Bitty Roy studies orchid species that look and smell like nearby mushrooms.</p><p>Nature has its imposters\u2014like the milk snake posing as the deadly coral snake\u2014and</p><p>even plants are known to mimic other species.</p><p>Bitty thinks the mimicking orchids are trying to attract a particular fly, which helps the plants pollinate. These flies\u2014usually attracted to the mushrooms\u2014help spread</p><p>the orchid's pollen, thereby aiding reproduction.</p><p>Orchids are plentiful here, so the fakery is paying off.</p><p>That's National Geographic On Assignment\u2014your link to our Explorers.</p>", 
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