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Some Amazon jaguars have adapted to live in treetops to avoid flooding

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Some Amazon jaguars have adapted to live in treetops to avoid flooding

Seasonal flooding can make parts of the Amazon river basin tricky terrain for land animals, so jaguars have taken to spending months in trees and eating monkeys and lizards they find up there

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Some sea slugs behead themselves and then regrow their bodies

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Some sea slugs behead themselves and then regrow their bodies

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Some frogs have noise-cancelling lungs to dampen other species’ calls

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Some frogs have noise-cancelling lungs to dampen other species’ calls

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antlion

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Playing dead really works to help insects avoid being eaten by birds

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dolphin and man fishing

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Dolphins that help humans catch fish are being disturbed by ship noise

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pufferfish

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Pufferfish blink by pulling in their eyeballs and puckering their skin

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moth

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Moth species becomes more sexually active when bathed in red light

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slug

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Watch a slug use a thin thread of slime as a slide to reach the ground

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dog

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Dogs prove they are aware of their own bodies when playing fetch

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knifefish

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Knifefish use electric fields to develop a complex social hierarchy

The brown ghost knifefish of South America can generate electric signals – and they seem to use them to develop and maintain a sophisticated social hierarchy

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Sound waves from fin whale songs could help us study Earth’s crust

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Cannibal cockroaches nibble each other’s wings after they have mated

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Dragonflies do a backwards roll to fly upright – even when unconscious

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Naked mole rats mimic the dialect of their colony’s queen

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