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Living in the Clouds: How Rwanda’s Mountain Chimpanzees Stay Warm and Cool
Picture a chimpanzee and you probably picture heat: thick jungle, blazing sun, an ape panting in the shade. High in…
Read MoreThe Popularity Illusion: How Animal Societies Are Quietly Unequal
Picture a troop of baboons grooming each other in the afternoon shade, a flock of finches wheeling together at dusk,…
Read MorePeanut Smut in Argentina: The Real Cost, and How to Calculate It in Your Field
Argentina’s peanut industry runs almost entirely through one province, Córdoba, and within it, through a handful of towns – General…
Read MoreBats Pass Down the Secret of Where to Spend Winter – And Scientists Finally Caught Them Doing It
Picture a bat that has never once hibernated. It’s a few months old, born in a summer roost in Berlin…
Read MoreDo Dolphins Use Friendship to Survive Hard Times? 35 Years in the Moray Firth Says Not Really
Picture a mother dolphin off the coast of Scotland’s Moray Firth. Some years, salmon run thick through the rivers that…
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The Night Shift: How PolliCrop AI Caught Moths Visiting Sunflowers for Nectar After Dark
Picture a sunflower field at 2 a.m. No one is there. No one has ever really been there at that…
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Two Ways to Survive a Thirsty Sky: How the Rose Family’s Wood and Bark Evolved as a Team
Every summer, the same family of plants – apples, roses, cherries, blackberries – faces the same brutal math: pull water…
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Born Wary: Great Tit Chicks Won’t Unlearn Their Fear of Red
Picture a nest full of great tit chicks in a Finnish forest. Every day, their parents fly back and forth,…
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The Fission-Fusion Family: Why White-Nosed Coatis Split Up and Reunite
Picture a family reunion that never really ends. Sometimes everyone is together in one big group. Other times, small clusters…
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Freeze or Flee: The Ancient Logic That Keeps Frogs Alive
Somewhere in the leaf litter of a Neotropical forest, a frog is doing nothing. It is sitting completely still, eyes…
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