Animals
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Animals
A meal plan for birds
Scrub jays do a bird version of planning ahead for their next meal.
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Animals
Chicken eggs as drug factories
Researchers have created chickens that produce useful drugs in their eggs.
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Animals
G-Tunes with a Message
Apes known as gibbons can rearrange the notes of their songs to communicate with one another.
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Animals
The Littlest Lemurs
Studies of mouse lemurs may tell us something about our own origins.
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Animals
A tongue and a half
A nectar-sipping bat from South America has a skinny tongue that's longer than its body.
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Animals
Lives of a mole rat
The toothy mammals known as mole rats have highly unusual bodies, brains, and social lives.
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Animals
Chicken talk
Chickens can make meaningful sounds that, like words, refer to objects around them.
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Animals
Decoding how bees work
Analyzing the DNA code of honeybees may lead to a better understanding of bee societies.
By Emily Sohn -
Animals
Living in the desert
Animals adapt in unusual ways to survive in some of the hottest, driest places on Earth.
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Animals
Mating slows down prairie dogs
Mating season turns distracted male prairie dogs into easy pickings for predators.