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Essential oils help to stop invasive beetles from eating palm trees

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Essential oils help to stop invasive beetles from eating palm trees

Red palm weevils are invasive insects known for damaging palm trees – affecting the date, coconut and palm oil industries – but a bit of clove or thyme oil reduced the amount of palm stems they ate by 35 per cent

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Cockatoos opening bins

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Cockatoos are figuring out how to open bins by copying each other

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grizzly bears

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Male and female mammals kill their own species for different reasons

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dog with bowl

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Dogs will ignore you if they know you are lying, unlike young children

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vampire bat

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Female vampire bats groom each other and share their food

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shark

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Sharks in the Gulf of Mexico hunt in shifts to avoid each other

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Meerkats hugging each other

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Meerkats in zoos don’t put as much effort into social niceties

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Can we use nudge theory to help endangered animals save themselves?

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Can we use nudge theory to help endangered animals save themselves?

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Young eels escape from the mouths of fish by wriggling out the gills

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Fox-breeding experiment suggests domestication can boost brain size

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Fox-breeding experiment suggests domestication can boost brain size

Our understanding of how domestication changes the neurobiology of a species may be wrong, results from a 60-year experiment to breed tame foxes suggest. The findings could also have implications for human evolution, claim researchers

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Female seahorses cheat on their mate when they can no longer smell him

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‘Hangry’ male fruit flies attack each other if they go without food

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Anthropomania review: Our love of animals and how we live with them

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Parasitic ants keep evolving to lose their smell and taste genes

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