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Mother with baby, among others, Lesser Dog-faced Fruit Bat (Cyneropterus brachyotis). Also called Short-nosed or Common Fruit Bat. Animals hanging in the roof. Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve, Singapore.

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Females are not smaller than males in most mammal species

The idea that male mammals are larger than females has persisted for more than a century, but an analysis of body mass and length in 400 mammal species shows it isn’t the norm

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H7WWT1 Magellanic Penguin (Spheniscus magellanicus) pair calling from burrow entrance, Volunteer Point, East Falkland Island, Falkland

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How climate change is forcing animals that mate for life to break up

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Goffin's cockatoo using tools

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Cockatoos understand when a job requires a toolkit

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Traditional cooperative fishing between Lahille's bottlenose dolphins and artisanal net-casting fishers in Laguna, Brazil. CREDIT Photo by Mauricio Cantor, Department of Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation Sciences, Marine Mammal Institute, Oregon State University.

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Dolphins that help humans catch fish are more likely to survive

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Banded mongoose group approaching with curiosity (Mungos mungo). Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. March 2018.

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Inside the complex and extremely violent world of warring mongooses

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Dogs can tell when you want to give them a treat – even if you don’t

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A brown ghost knifefish

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Ghost knifefish make electric 'chirps' to spot where other fish are

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Two people, little girl playing with toy blocks, her mother is sitting next to her at home.

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Children aged 5 are better at switching their attention than chimps

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Slight overheating chicken eggs during their incubation makes male chicks more sociable

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Male chicks are more sociable if they were grown in warmer eggs

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Why we shouldn't attribute human motivations to animals like bees

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Why we shouldn't attribute human motivations to animals like bees

Anthropomorphising animals such as chimps, dolphins and bees will stifle scientific enquiry instead of encouraging it, says evolutionary biologist Marlene Zuk

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Male and female gibbons sing duets in time with each other

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Sloths have double the grip strength of humans and other primates

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Small and speedy animals perceive time faster than big, slow creatures

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Some individual animals are really lazy. How do they get away with it?

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