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Mind

The grand plan to create a periodic table of all animal intelligence

Animal minds are extraordinarily diverse, but a new attempt to categorise them aims to reveal the distinct nature of intelligence in everything from dolphins to bees – and even us

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A nematode

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Hungry worms will risk being hurt if it helps them reach a meal

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Watch male orb-weaving spiders catapult off females to escape death

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Watch male orb-weaving spiders catapult off females to escape death

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sandy the dingo

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Dingo genome suggests Australian icon not descended from domestic dogs

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Bottlenose dolphins being fed

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Dolphins who are hand-fed by tourists are less social than their peers

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Tardigrade

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Tardigrades can hitch-hike on snails to travel longer distances

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blind cave tetra

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Blind Mexican cave fish are developing cave-specific accents

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Common swifts enter hibernation-like torpor on cold nights

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Santa Marta harlequin toad

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Male toad clings to female for 5 months waiting for chance to mate

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Black spider monkey

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Spider monkeys actively choose to eat fruit infested with insects

Some spider monkeys living in the Amazon rainforest mostly live on fruit, but choose to eat ones containing larval insects as a way of boosting their protein intake

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Crows may owe their intelligence to an abundance of certain neurons

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Bats can remember sounds they haven't heard for more than 4 years

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Stingrays and zebra mbuna fish know how to add and subtract

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Vampire bats adapted to drinking blood by shedding several genes

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