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Bumblebees can teach each other how to open a puzzle box

When researchers taught a bumblebee to push a lever for a reward, the knowledge spread through its colony, hinting that these insects have a kind of minimal culture

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Ginger kitten playing with a cardboard box.

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Surprising new research on cats will make you see yours in a new light

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Mother with baby, among others, Lesser Dog-faced Fruit Bat (Cyneropterus brachyotis). Also called Short-nosed or Common Fruit Bat. Animals hanging in the roof. Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve, Singapore.

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Females are not smaller than males in most mammal species

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H7WWT1 Magellanic Penguin (Spheniscus magellanicus) pair calling from burrow entrance, Volunteer Point, East Falkland Island, Falkland

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How climate change is forcing animals that mate for life to break up

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Goffin's cockatoo using tools

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Cockatoos understand when a job requires a toolkit

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Traditional cooperative fishing between Lahille's bottlenose dolphins and artisanal net-casting fishers in Laguna, Brazil. CREDIT Photo by Mauricio Cantor, Department of Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation Sciences, Marine Mammal Institute, Oregon State University.

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Dolphins that help humans catch fish are more likely to survive

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Banded mongoose group approaching with curiosity (Mungos mungo). Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. March 2018.

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Inside the complex and extremely violent world of warring mongooses

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Dogs can tell when you want to give them a treat – even if you don’t

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A brown ghost knifefish

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Ghost knifefish make electric 'chirps' to spot where other fish are

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Two people, little girl playing with toy blocks, her mother is sitting next to her at home.

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Children aged 5 are better at switching their attention than chimps

In a task based on switching between two sets of rules, 5-year-olds score highly, while 4-year-olds and chimpanzees lag behind

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Male chicks are more sociable if they were grown in warmer eggs

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Why we shouldn't attribute human motivations to animals like bees

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Male and female gibbons sing duets in time with each other

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Sloths have double the grip strength of humans and other primates

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