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animal behaviour

A white rodent eating a chocolate snack

Life

Smart lab rats filmed using hooked tools to get chocolate cereal

Lock up your cereal. Rats can learn to use tools, such as hooked rakes, to reach food, and they can even choose the right tool for the job

News

Chimps, bonobos and orangutans grasp how others view the world

Life

Chimps, bonobos and orangutans grasp how others view the world

News

Don’t worry, bee happy: Bees found to have emotions and moods

Life

Don’t worry, bee happy: Bees found to have emotions and moods

News

A Hawaiian crow using a stick as a tool

Life

Hawaiian crows can use sticks as tools but are nearly extinct

News

ant bridge

Life

Get inside the collective mind of a genius superorganism

Features

Endangered dolphin with broken blowhole learns to mouth-breathe

Life

Endangered dolphin with broken blowhole learns to mouth-breathe

News

Genius crow's tool-bending behaviour may be natural to its kind

Life

Genius crow's tool-bending behaviour may be natural to its kind

News

A crow stands on a branch holding a twig in its beak

Life

Crows are first animals spotted using tools to carry objects

News

chimp

Life

Making squirrels count and other dumb animal intelligence tests

Culture

Prehistoric scene with tyrannosaur

Life

Skull of mini T. rex shows it gained intelligence before size

New remains plug a 20-million-year gap in the fossil record and suggest T. rex evolved a big brain as the first step to becoming apex predator

News

Life

Watch brainy zoo animals figure out a box puzzle to get at food

News

Life

Root intelligence: Plants can think, feel and learn

Features

Life

Hive minds: Honeybee intelligence creates a buzz

Features

Life

Chimp prodigy shows signs of human-like intelligence

News

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