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Ginger kitten playing with a cardboard box.

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Surprising new research on cats will make you see yours in a new light

Cats have a reputation for being aloof and untamed, but recent studies suggest they may be more attuned to humans than we realise. We may even have solved the mystery of why cats love boxes

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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

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Big cats, such as lions and tigers, have tested positive for the coronavirus before, but this is the first known case of a lion probably transmitting the infection to zoo workers

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Lion infected with covid-19 probably passed it on to two zoo workers

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Dogs living near Chernobyl are genetically different to other groups

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Rare bird not seen for 24 years found alive in Madagascan forests

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Sharpshooter insect

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Tiny insects excrete vast amounts of urine using an anal catapult

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Wind turbine with black and white stripes

Life

Stripy wind turbines could prevent fatal seabird collisions

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Elephant wearing an electric shock collar

Life

Shock collars could keep elephants out of conflict with humans

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A peregrine falcon in flight with St Paul's Cathedral in the background

Life

Lockdown forced London's peregrine falcons to eat more parakeets

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Two elephants embracing with their trunks through the bars of an enclosure

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Elephants may remember the smell of a relative's dung for 12 years

African elephants in captivity reacted to the smell of relatives they had not seen for years by flapping their ears and making rumbling sounds

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Naked mole rats reveal biological secrets of lifelong fertility

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Spine of early crawling fish was becoming more like a land animal's

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Turtles stranded on UK beaches after storms send them off course

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Prawn larvae conceal their eyes with reflectors to hide from predators

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