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Hibernating thirteen-lined ground squirrel

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Hibernating ground squirrels recycle urine to maintain their muscles

Hibernating animals find it hard to get the nitrogen they need to maintain muscles – but ground squirrels have gut microbes that can break down urea to free up the nitrogen it contains

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Largest ever fish colony hosts 100 billion eggs under Antarctic ice

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Largest ever fish colony hosts 100 billion eggs under Antarctic ice

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Bottlenose dolphins swim off the coast of South Carolina

Life

What dolphins reveal about the evolution of the clitoris

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Purple-crowned fairy-wrens

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Fairywren birds can nest out of breeding season to boost numbers

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BAHTKK Greater bilby, Macrotis lagotis scavenging at night. Image shot 03/2009. Exact date unknown.

Environment

Australia’s bilbies and bettongs bounce back in predator-free areas

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Archerfish

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Archerfish prove they can count by spitting at computer screens

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Eurasian Jay in the wild

Mind

Meet the scientists who perform magic tricks on birds

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elephant

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Young male elephants rein in aggression if older males are nearby

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dog

Life

Dogs notice when computer animations violate Newton’s laws of physics

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Domestic turkey

Life

Turkeys with pale plumage are more fearful than dark-feathered birds

Domesticated turkeys in Nigeria come in a variety of colours, and those with lavender-coloured feathers are more fearful than black-feathered birds

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Life

Stones smashed by horses can be mistaken for ancient human tools

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Life

Risso’s dolphins have invented rapid spin-dive technique for hunting

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Humans

Why are we conscious? The answer lies in other animals’ heads

Features

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Pale barn owls in UK and Ireland hint at ancient land bridge

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