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Animals

Hyenas play
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Hyenas signal to others when fighting in just a game

Hyenas bob their heads and make clear facial expressions to warn fellow hyenas that the attack they are about to launch is just a game.

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A goose with a lake in the background

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Birds flocked to North American cities during covid-19 lockdowns

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Watch cuttlefish migrate together in a defensive line with a lookout

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Animals get weighed at London Zoo annual weigh-in
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Health check for London zoo animals as annual weigh-in gets underway

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Chinese Scorpion (Buthus martensii)

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Scorpions develop a sting in the tail before they are ready to use it

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Cockatoo tool use
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Wild cockatoos make “cutlery” tools from tree branches

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F0PBYM Mediterranean checkered scorpion (Mesobuthus gibbosus) on rock, The Peloponnese, Greece

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Scorpions have strange joints that can simultaneously bend and twist

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Ant in the outdoors
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How ants use soil physics to excavate metre-long tunnels

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Giant anteater

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Giant anteaters are forced to roam in search of cooling forests

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Land-dwelling turtles from the Cretaceous period had extra-tough eggs

The first known example of an ancient fossilised turtle embryo preserved inside an egg shows that land-dwelling turtles from the Late Cretaceous period had exceptionally tough eggshells

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Why do cats purr?

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Sponge fossils suggest animals already existed 890 million years ago

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Galapagos tortoises use their self-destructing cells to avoid cancer

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Sea otters use muscles to chemically generate heat without shivering

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