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Banded mongoose group approaching with curiosity (Mungos mungo). Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. March 2018.

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Inside the complex and extremely violent world of warring mongooses

Banded mongooses have long been used as a model of animal cooperation. Now, researchers in Uganda are starting to get to grips with the harsh realities of their long-running and bloody battles

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Dogs can tell when you want to give them a treat – even if you don’t

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A brown ghost knifefish

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Ghost knifefish make electric 'chirps' to spot where other fish are

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Slight overheating chicken eggs during their incubation makes male chicks more sociable

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Male chicks are more sociable if they were grown in warmer eggs

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Why we shouldn't attribute human motivations to animals like bees

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Why we shouldn't attribute human motivations to animals like bees

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Male and female gibbons sing duets in time with each other

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Finley, one of the sloths at The Sloth Sanctuary in Costa Rica. Credit: Ignacio Moya

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Sloths have double the grip strength of humans and other primates

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Some individual animals are really lazy. How do they get away with it?

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Some individual animals are really lazy. How do they get away with it?

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FJ678N Peter's worm-jawed mormyrid, Peter's elephant nose, elephantnose fish, Longnosed Elephant fish (Gnathonemus petersii, Gnathonemus brevicaudatus, Mormyrus petersii), swimming

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Elephant-nose fish do a little dance to help them 'see' in 3D

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Flying squirrels carve nuts to store them securely in tree branches

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Flying squirrels carve nuts to store them securely in tree branches

These flying squirrels carve grooves around nuts so they can be wedged in the forks of twigs without falling out

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Flying squirrels carve nuts to store them securely in tree branches

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Brown centipede uses a weird body motion to swim, not its many legs

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The world is full of living gold, which is more valuable than riches

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Black widow spiders remember their prey if it is stolen

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