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Lithuania issues postage stamp honouring primatologist Birutė Galdikas

LRT English23 October 2026, 08:38 UTCLithuania

Lithuania’s postal service, Lietuvos paštas, is issuing a new postage stamp Friday honouring Birutė Galdikas, one of the world’s best-known primatologists of Lithuanian descent.

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