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honey badger eating beeswax

Life

A surprising number of African animals eat beeswax

Honeyguide birds lead humans to bees’ nests and get beeswax as a reward, but camera traps reveal that honey badgers, baboons and mongooses all feed on the leftovers

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A razorbill in Italian waters

Environment

Hundreds of razorbills have been turning up far from home in Italy

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Artist’s reconstruction of Janavis finalidens, a very large marine bird from the late Cretaceous

Life

Ancient bird with a movable beak rewrites the story of avian evolution

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Great bustards

Life

Bustards may use plants to treat STIs during the breeding season

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Seagull

Life

Why do seagulls have dark wings? It may help them glide in the air

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ENB5TA arctic tern, sterna paradisaea

Life

The migrating birds that roam the world to live in an eternal summer

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Female robin

Life

Scientists finally realised female robins sing just as well as males

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Erect crested penguins

Life

Erect-crested penguins always reject their first egg and lay another

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Dazzling photograph of pink-breasted galahs in Australian desert

Earth

Dazzling photograph of pink-breasted galahs in Australian desert

Regulars

A sulphur crested cockatoo navigates a block on a bin lid

Life

Sydney residents in cultural evolution war with bin-raiding cockatoos

Sulphur-crested cockatoos are defying human efforts to keep them out of bins by copying each other’s tricks, but more effective strategies to thwart them are passed on between humans too

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3D-printed tweezers based on crow beaks are more dexterous

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Technology

Tweezers based on a crow's beak can outperform traditional ones

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Life

Tropical birds build nests from fungi that may keep parasites at bay

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Life

Hummingbird that was feared extinct is spotted in Colombian mountains

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