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Our drive for adventure and challenge has ancient origins

Humans

Our drive for adventure and challenge has ancient origins

Why are some people drawn towards exploration and challenge – even to the point of extreme danger? Alex Hutchinson's bracing new book unpicks the complex reasons

Culture

Monkeys choose babysitters based on who has more parenting experience

Life

Monkeys choose babysitters based on who has more parenting experience

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Life

Budgie brains have a map of vocal sounds just like humans

News

What the extraordinary medical know-how of wild animals can teach us

Life

What the extraordinary medical know-how of wild animals can teach us

Features

Life

Dancing turtles help us understand how they navigate around the world

News

Mind

We are all bad at choosing random numbers in our own unique way

News

Life

Bonobos can tell when they know something you don't

News

A newly recognised species of scorpion (Tityus achilles) that can spit venom

Life

Newly identified scorpion species ‘spits’ venom to defend itself

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A pigeon looks in the photographer's camera in Frankfurt am Main, western Germany, on November 17, 2016. / AFP / dpa / Frank Rumpenhorst / Germany OUT (Photo credit should read FRANK RUMPENHORST/DPA/AFP via Getty Images)

Life

Pigeons are misunderstood: These little-known facts will prove why

Features

ITALY. Venice. A tourist takes a picture while pigeons surround her. 2005.

Life

The amazing talents of pigeons – and why we should learn to love them

Rats of the sky? Pigeons are often the target of human ire, but there's a lot to cherish – or at least appreciate – in these scrappy survivors

Features

Mind

She's obsessed with chicken! The tests revealing my dog's inner life

Features

Technology

Robotic rat uses AI to befriend real rodents

News

Video

Inside 'Puppy Kindergarten': Science-based ways to train your dog

Video

Life

Orcas have begun wearing salmon hats again – and we may soon know why

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