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Orangutan mothers seem to plan playdates for their offspring
Female orangutans are generally solitary, but they travel more and eat less in an apparent effort to ensure their offspring have someone to play with
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The world’s fastest spider tops 3.5 metres per second
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Childbirth for many primate species is even harder than for humans
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New-to-science spider builds trap that flings ants into the air
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Remarkable fossils rewrite the story of how animals conquered the land
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Pigeons lock their eyes in place when they are flying
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Walking shark found in Papua New Guinea is new to science
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Wolves seen hunting European bison in rare camera-trap recording
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Millions of fossil whale bones found in deep-ocean 鈥榥ecropolis鈥�
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Frozen squirrel scat preserves ancient DNA from hundreds of species
A complex ecosystem of woolly mammoths, bison, horses and big cats has been elucidated by studying the faeces of small rodents that probably ate the bigger animals
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Himalayan wolf-dog hybrids emerge as a threat to wolves and people
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New Scientist recommends a smart new account of human exceptionalism
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Extinct relative of koalas discovered in Western Australia
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