Mind
Why hairy animals shake themselves dry
The brain pathway that causes hairy mammals like mice and dogs to shake themselves dry appears to have more to do with pressure than temperature
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Are we really ready for genuine communication with animals through AI?
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Life
Male mice flee to female mice to de-escalate fights
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Life
Octopuses and fish hunt as a team to catch more prey
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Life
Air jacket helps ‘scuba-diving’ lizards stay underwater for longer
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Life
Is life better as a dog? A philosopher investigates
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Life
Fish size themselves up in a mirror to decide if they can win a fight
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Life
Watch eels escape from the stomachs of fish after being swallowed
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Life
Marmosets seem to call each other by name
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Life
Leeches use their whole bodies to entomb and eat ultra-fast worms
Blackworms are ultra-fast swimmers, and they tangle up into worm balls to protect themselves from predators – but leeches have an ingenious method of catching them called “spiral entombment”
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Life
Charles Darwin’s frogs turn mating upside down
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Sea slugs discovered working together to hunt in packs
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Life
Elephants seem to invent names for each other
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Hungry deer may have driven tiny plant evolution on Japanese island
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