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Apes have the same willingness to share food as small children
In lab experiments, chimpanzees and bonobos share peanuts and grapes with other apes who shared food first, doing so at about the same rate as 4-year-old children
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Blobs of worms untangle in milliseconds with a corkscrew wiggle
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Elephant seals take power naps in the ocean while slowly sinking
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We finally know why insects are attracted to lights
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Big animals move more slowly than small ones to avoid overheating
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Zebra finches pick singing coaches based on songs they hear as embryos
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Mysterious deep-sea holes may be burrows of tiny shrimp-like creatures
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Ants independently evolved to farm fungus at least twice
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Stunning photographs accompany Attenborough’s Wild Isles show
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Lizards on a US Army base are stress eating due to helicopter noise
When loud helicopters or fighter jets pass overhead, Colorado checkered whiptail lizards spend less time moving around and more time eating and their levels of the stress hormone cortisol rise
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Brown widow spiders are killing off black widows in the southern US
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Orca seen foster parenting a pilot whale calf for first time
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Bumblebees can teach each other how to open a puzzle box
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Surprising new research on cats will make you see yours in a new light
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