Their successful completion of the docking mission at 12:47 pm local time on Sunday means China is fully capable of transferring humans and cargo to an orbiter in space much like the Americans, only the Americans have abandoned further work in this area beyond the current International Space Station expedition which ends next month.

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Prof Altringham said earlier study work showed that only males were captured at higher altitudes, at the top of the area's dales.

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