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Watch salamanders 'skydive' in a miniature wind tunnel

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Watch salamanders 'skydive' in a miniature wind tunnel

Tree-dwelling salamanders control their fall as they float down from trees by stretching out their limbs like human skydivers do

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Example of one of the study sites

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Noisy boats over the Great Barrier Reef are cutting fish lives short

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A nematode

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Hungry worms will risk being hurt if it helps them reach a meal

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Watch male orb-weaving spiders catapult off females to escape death

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Watch male orb-weaving spiders catapult off females to escape death

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Bottlenose dolphins being fed

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Dolphins who are hand-fed by tourists are less social than their peers

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Tardigrade

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Tardigrades can hitch-hike on snails to travel longer distances

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blind cave tetra

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Blind Mexican cave fish are developing cave-specific accents

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Common swifts enter hibernation-like torpor on cold nights

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Santa Marta harlequin toad

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Male toad clings to female for 5 months waiting for chance to mate

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Black spider monkey

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Spider monkeys actively choose to eat fruit infested with insects

Some spider monkeys living in the Amazon rainforest mostly live on fruit, but choose to eat ones containing larval insects as a way of boosting their protein intake

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Vampire bats adapted to drinking blood by shedding several genes

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Sorry Darwin, but it turns out promiscuity benefits females too

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Make mistakes on purpose – it can dramatically boost your performance

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How a rodent’s fear of cats shapes rainforests in Panama

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