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Moments of leisure: The redshank's bathing display

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To the beat of the wetland's unhurried rhythms, creatures embrace their individual forms of leisure. While black-necked cranes recline like sunbathing aristocrats, a redshank steals the spotlight with its exuberant bath-time antics: splashing, shaking and reveling in the simple enjoyment of water. This "animal spa" has no schedules or rules, just pockets of peace and bursts of play. For anyone who pauses to look closer, the wetland offers a master class in living slowly, wildly and wholly in the moment.

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