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Macaque with stolen goods

Environment

Monkey mafia steal your stuff, then sell it back for a cracker

Long-tailed macaques living near an Indonesian temple have learned how to steal human possessions, including cash, and then trade them for food

Side-by-side comparison of an Egyptian vulture with and without the mud make-up

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Vultures smear their faces in red mud which they use as makeup

A chimp holding a leaf, possibly drinking from it

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Chimps pass on sponge drinking trick like a family tradition

Octopuses seem to have special gene editing powers

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Squid and octopus can edit and direct their own brain genes

Orangutan watches man place something in a yellow box

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Apes can see things from your perspective and help you out

seeking

Humans

Inside knowledge: Why we like to know useless stuff

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Humans

Inside knowledge: What’s really going on in the minds of animals

Dog

Environment

Dogs use deception to get what they want from humans (a sausage)

Environment

Sociable woodpeckers that cooperate have evolved smaller brains

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Bees learn to play golf and show off how clever they really are

Bumblebees have shown they can learn how to push a ball into a hole to get a reward, staking their claim to be considered tool users

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Synchronised swimming seems to make dolphins more optimistic

Life

We know we are – but what else is conscious too?

Life

Monkeys should be able to talk just like us – so why don’t they?

Environment

Watch cockatoo genius chew out a tool from a piece of cardboard