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A zebrafish

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Zebrafish produce sunscreen to protect their embryos from UV light

Zebrafish eggs contain a compound called gadusol that acts as a sunscreen to protect the developing embryos from the sun’s rays

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A whiptail lizard

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Lizards on a US Army base are stress eating due to helicopter noise

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Big cats, such as lions and tigers, have tested positive for the coronavirus before, but this is the first known case of a lion probably transmitting the infection to zoo workers

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Lion infected with covid-19 probably passed it on to two zoo workers

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Traditional cooperative fishing between Lahille's bottlenose dolphins and artisanal net-casting fishers in Laguna, Brazil. CREDIT Photo by Mauricio Cantor, Department of Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation Sciences, Marine Mammal Institute, Oregon State University.

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Dolphins that help humans catch fish are more likely to survive

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A wolf looking for prey on Pleasant Island, Alaska

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Wolves are eating sea otters after depleting an Alaskan island’s deer

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An elephant using its trunk to pick up a banana

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Elephant trunks are very dexterous because they are so wrinkly

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A snapping shrimp (Alpheus heterochaelis) at night

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Snapping shrimps have helmets to ward off shock waves from their claws

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Rhinella unapensis was first identified on a campus of the National University of the Peruvian Amazon

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New-to-science toad species discovered on university campus in Peru

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kakapo parrot

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Rare kakapo parrot is genetically healthy despite being very inbred

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Crayfish

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Antidepressants leaking into waterways could make crayfish bolder

Trace amounts of antidepressants washing into rivers and lakes could be making crayfish behave more boldly, and disturbing their ecosystems

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Artificial rope bridges help stop rare primates jumping to extinction

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Tuataras

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Bats can learn to copy sounds and it may teach us about human speech

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World’s highest mammal discovered at the top of a Mars-like volcano

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