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Analysis of 85 animals reveals which are best at holding their alcohol
Humans, chimpanzees, gorillas and bats have evolved to be good at metabolising alcohol, according to a study that suggests many mammals can get drunk
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Why bats and nocturnal animals hate light pollution?
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Extinction lottery: how should we choose which species to save?
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Dingoes are both pest and icon. Now there’s a new reason to love them
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Don’t Miss: absurd animals, the chemical age and DIY dancing
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Bats can learn to copy sounds and it may teach us about human speech
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Little green invaders: how parakeets conquered the world
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Whale sharks can live for at least 50 years 鈥� and probably longer
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Europe鈥檚 cave bears may have died out because of their large sinuses
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The science of boredom can tell us how to keep ourselves amused
Boredom can be unpleasant, but we can learn from some of the world's dullest people how to keep ourselves amused, says boredom researcher James Danckert
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Male bottlenose dolphins synchronise their calls to attract females
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Penguins call out as they hunt under water but we鈥檙e not sure why
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World鈥檚 highest mammal discovered at the top of a Mars-like volcano
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We may have started keeping lapdogs as pets 2000 years ago
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