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Ants care for wounded comrades by licking their wounds clean

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Ants care for wounded comrades by licking their wounds clean

If a Matabele ant loses a limb in a battle with termites, its nestmates will tend its injuries - a behaviour never before seen in any non-human animal

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Birds 'dream sing' by moving their vocal muscles in their sleep

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Birds 'dream sing' by moving their vocal muscles in their sleep

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Naked volunteers pose for the US photographer Spencer Tunick in the ice-cold Swiss glacier of Aletsch, the largest in the Alps, as background for an environmental campaign about global warming

Earth

Tiny individual decisions really could help avert climate chaos

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How besieged ants decide when it’s time to abandon their nests

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How besieged ants decide when it’s time to abandon their nests

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After crows fight they touch and preen each other to make up

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After crows fight they touch and preen each other to make up

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Great tits avoid bad food after seeing grossed-out friends

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Great tits avoid bad food after seeing grossed-out friends

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Punch and Judy

Humans

Six-year-olds will pay to see bad guys get their comeuppance

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A woman addresses a meeting

Humans

Want to be the boss? How to signal your leadership potential

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Why do female monkeys spend so long looking at rugged males?

Life

Why do female monkeys spend so long looking at rugged males?

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chimp art

Humans

Old Scientist: Age, autism and animal art

Prejudice – and our attempts to question it – is the thread we follow through Decembers past in �鶹��ý

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Life

We struggle with monogamy – is it time to abandon it altogether?

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Health

Teenage brains can’t tell what’s important and what isn’t

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Humans

Huge dose of brain chemical dopamine may have made us smart

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Life

Monkeys learn to play 'chicken' in a virtual driving game

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