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Females are not smaller than males in most mammal species
The idea that male mammals are larger than females has persisted for more than a century, but an analysis of body mass and length in 400 mammal species shows it isn鈥檛 the norm
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How climate change is forcing animals that mate for life to break up
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Dolphins that help humans catch fish are more likely to survive
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Inside the complex and extremely violent world of warring mongooses
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Dogs can tell when you want to give them a treat 鈥� even if you don鈥檛
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Ghost knifefish make electric ‘chirps’ to spot where other fish are
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Male chicks are more sociable if they were grown in warmer eggs
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Why we shouldn’t attribute human motivations to animals like bees
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Male and female gibbons sing duets in time with each other
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Sloths have double the grip strength of humans and other primates
Dangling from a tree with just a single foot, sloths can exert more gripping force relative to their weight than primates 鈥� and they are consistently, but mysteriously, stronger on their left side
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Some individual animals are really lazy. How do they get away with it?
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Elephant-nose fish do a little dance to help them ‘see’ in 3D
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Flying squirrels carve nuts to store them securely in tree branches
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Flying squirrels carve nuts to store them securely in tree branches
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