Aveiro

British

/ əˈveːiru /

noun

Ancient name: Talabriga. a port in N central Portugal, on the Aveiro lagoon: ancient Roman town; linked by canal with the Atlantic Ocean. Pop: 73 335 (2001)

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Ronaldo, whose YouTube channel was the fastest ever to reach one million subscribers - he currently has 73 million - has his older brother Hugo Aveiro and former Sporting team-mate Miguel Paixao among his right-hand men to manage his businesses.

From BBC

Several fires broke out in the Aveiro region over the weekend, which have forced about 70 residents to flee, the civil protection authority has said.

From BBC

But on the site LiveScience, Alfredo López Fernandez, a biologist at Portugal’s University of Aveiro and co-author of a paper last year on orca-human behavior, suspects that a trauma to the orca pod’s leader — say, an injury from a ship rudder or illegal fishing — may have started the behavior, and other orcas picked it up.

From Los Angeles Times

"That traumatized orca is the one that started this behavior of physical contact with the boat," Alfredo López Fernandez, a biologist at the University of Aveiro in Portugal, told Live Science.

From Salon

“We know that it is a complex behavior that has nothing to do with aggression,” said Alfredo López Fernandez, a biologist at the University of Aveiro in Portugal who worked on a study published last June on the subject.

From New York Times

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