Life
Predators may make prey get smart and grow more brain cells
Predators are a problem for Trinidad’s killifish: in streams where the problem is worst the killifish grow more brain cells, perhaps to help evade the hunters
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Cannibalistic African clawed frog eats tadpoles of its relatives
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Rabbits flee when they smell dead relatives in predators’ droppings
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Call off the grizzly bear trophy hunt, it’s immoral and unscientific
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Environment
When a daddy longlegs is attacked by a flatworm things get messy
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Ferocious pack-hunting pseudoscorpions believe in sharing fairly
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Earth
Giant sea spiders sit and wait for prey to knock themselves out
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Ants build a medieval ‘torture rack’ to catch grasshoppers
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Neanderthals ambushed cave bears as they awoke from hibernation
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Beetles escape alive after almost 2 hours in a toad’s stomach
Bombardier beetles sometimes get eaten by toads, but they can squirt hot, toxic jets of liquid from their backsides so the toads often vomit them right back up
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Shark-free world? That’s a wish that would come back to bite us
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Great tits avoid bad food after seeing grossed-out friends
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Giant coconut crab sneaks up on a sleeping bird and kills it
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Freeloading mites are squatting on spider webs and stealing food
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