Genomes from 44 cats point to a species that has long lived small, with no clear sign of inbreeding. Whether…
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Females Win More, Young Birds Mingle Most: Inside a Captive Rüppell’s Vulture Flock
What a 20-month study of 9,318 contests and 572 hours of watching reveals about rank, friendship and the evolution of…
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Feeling for Flaws: How a Rainforest Agouti Inspects a Shell Before Burying It
A forest rodent uses its lips and teeth to check whether a cache will keep Picture an agouti in a…
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Fish Don’t Inherit Self-Control: 15 Labs, 444 Fish, One Identical Test
Fish self-control doesn’t seem to run in the family. In ManyFishes 1, a study from 15 research groups, 444 fish…
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The Desert Bird That Speaks Two Languages at Once: How Arabian Babblers Warn Friends and Deter Snakes
Picture this: a small, sandy-brown bird is foraging in the Negev Desert when it spots something coiled and still in…
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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…
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The 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,…
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Bats 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…
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Do 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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