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A jewel damselfish

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Reef fish are more placid around islands infested with invasive rats

Around rat-infested tropical islands in the Indian Ocean, jewel damselfish change their behaviour because the algae they eat is less nutritious

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Fruit fly

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Male flies produce a chemical that makes females sleep in after mating

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Bee on a rape flower

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Shortage of pollinators could be killing 427,000 people a year

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Lattice soldierfish

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Fish see in the dark thanks to extra layers of rod cells in their eyes

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2FM22K7 The joy is evident on the face of this young orangutan. BORNEO: THIS BRITISH photographer has spent TWENTY years snapping Borneo?s cutest orangutans.

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Living in trees may have given great apes vocal skills for consonants

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Deer tick on a leaf

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Lyme disease may spread further by helping ticks survive cold winters

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Malewasp_treefrog_2.jpg: A male wasp (Anterhynchium gibbifrons) stinging and biting a tree frog (Dryophytes japonica).

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Male wasps use spiky genitals to defend themselves from predators

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Researcher Ryan Askren with a collared Canada goose

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Canada geese return twice as quickly if you try to shoo them away

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How well do you know your animal poo? Find out with this picture quiz

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How well do you know your animal poo? Find out with this picture quiz

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Frontal side view of the head of a juvenile Carpet-, or Diamond python, a species occurring throughout most of Australia; Shutterstock ID 696146398; purchase_order: -; job: -; client: -; other: -

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Scientists finally found the clitoris on snakes – and there are two

Researchers found the first evidence of a two-part sexual organ called a hemiclitoris in all nine species of female snakes they examined

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Fossils reveal the dinosaur era's changing insect soundscape

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Endangered white rhinos' cells turned into sperm and egg stem cells

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A surprising number of African animals eat beeswax

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Flying squirrels carve nuts to store them securely in tree branches

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