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DJ0W3Y The orangutans are the two exclusively Asian species of extant great apes. Native to Indonesia and Malaysia.

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Orangutans can learn how to use stone tools as hammers and knives

Captive orangutans that had never seen stone tools could work out how to use them to hit or cut things – but they couldn’t get the hang of making them

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Raspy cricket

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Australian raspy cricket has the strongest bite of 650 insect species

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Song Sparrow (Melospiza melodia), British Columbia, Canada

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Fear of predators means sparrows struggle to raise chicks to adulthood

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Three chimps

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Chimpanzees spotted apparently using insects to treat their wounds

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Fruit flies

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Learning styles in fruit flies may not be related to nature or nurture

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baboon

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Female baboons that had a tough infancy are less sociable as adults

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W982GH --FILE--Female giant panda Tian Tian, or Sweetie, eats bamboo at the YaAn Bifengxia Base of China Conservation and Research Centre for the Giant Panda

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Giant pandas more likely to reject cubs after artificial insemination

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Hibernating thirteen-lined ground squirrel

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Hibernating ground squirrels recycle urine to maintain their muscles

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Largest ever fish colony hosts 100 billion eggs under Antarctic ice

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Largest ever fish colony hosts 100 billion eggs under Antarctic ice

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Bottlenose dolphins swim off the coast of South Carolina

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What dolphins reveal about the evolution of the clitoris

Patricia Brennan's latest research suggests that bottlenose dolphins have clitorises that evolved for pleasure. She tells New Scientist why it's important to study animal genitalia

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Fairywren birds can nest out of breeding season to boost numbers

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Archerfish prove they can count by spitting at computer screens

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Meet the scientists who perform magic tricks on birds

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Young male elephants rein in aggression if older males are nearby

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