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How Goldfish Make Alcohol
Scientists reveal how goldfish make alcohol to survive without oxygen (read more)
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Beats Botox! Dog Walking Keeps You Younger Longer
Dog walking could be key to ensuring activity in later life (read more)
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Bite Me, Reptiles! Mammals Had Venom First
A kiss of death — mammals were the first animals to produce venom (read more)
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No Walls in Nature: Range Expansion in the Animal World
Challenging traditional theories on organisms’ ‘range expansion’ (read more)
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Chicken – Finger Lickin’ Caring and Intelligent
Review looks at studies on chicken intelligence, social development and emotions (read more)
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That Time You Went Away? Your Dogs Remember
Your dogs are paying attention and they’ll remember (read more)
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Born Slippy: The Freaky Chemistry of the Pacific Spiny Dogfish Shark
How sharks recycle toxic ammonia to keep their skin moist (read more)
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Honey, Quit Harshing My Buzz: Bumblebees Hit the Woozy Gravy
When Bees Are Buzzed, Their Behavior Changes (read more)
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Could Goats be Your Next Pet? Intelligent, Loyal (and Delicious)
Empathy and Need – Could goats become man’s best friend? (read more)
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Caring Canines. Do Dogs Do Christmas Too?
Dogs truly behave prosocially toward other dogs. (read more)
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Not So Dumb-o. Leafblower Elephants Get the Goodies
Elephants may use trunks like ‘leaf blowers’ to obtain inaccessible food (read more)
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The Slaver and the Snarl. Dog Bites (and avoiding them)
There was a common tendency for victims to blame themselves for the attack, rather than the animal (read more)
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Crocodiles Like To Play Too
Research shows that crocodilians engage in all three main types of play distinguished by behavior specialists (read more)
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All Speed, No Control. Daft Beetles
To take the sprinting gold from the tiger beetle, a person would have to hit 480 miles per hour. (read more)
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Dogs learn human behaviour
dogs are able to reproduce familiar actions and novel actions after different delays ̶ familiar actions after intervals as long as ten minutes; novel tasks after a delay of one minute (read more)
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Chimps Cash Their Chance Chips
Chimpanzees, bonobos exhibit emotional responses to outcomes of decision-making. Chimps Cash ? It’s bananas of course. (read more)
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Animal Cognition
Animal Cognition: According to standard theory, the best response to current circumstances should be unaffected by what has happened in the past (read more)
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Monkey math
Opposing thumbs, expressive faces, complex social systems: it’s hard to miss the similarities between apes, humans and monkey maths. (read more)
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Extreme hearing animal
Researchers discover world’s most extreme hearing animal (read more)
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Following Whalesong
Male humpback whales sing complex whalesong in tropical waters during the winter breeding season (read more)
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Extraverted gorillas enjoy longer lives
Gorillas with an extravert personality live longer than their more introverted peers, a study suggests. (read more)
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Drunken Tweets Not Confined to Humans
‘all the dead birds had become intoxicated on fermented berries, and that some of the injuries they had sustained were the result of mid-air collisions’. Drunken Birds. (read more)