3 September 2021
Squids aren’t known for good parenting, mostly because they usually die after mating, but male bigfin reef squid check nests for potential predators and warn other males to stay away
12 August 2021
Black howler monkeys move through their environment using mental maps that the primates modify and adapt as the landscape changes – a skill previously seen only in humans
3 May 2021
Bats have an internal sense of the speed of sound that they use to calculate the distance to perches or prey with echolocation, and it seems to be something they don’t have to learn
12 March 2021
Electric catfish use shocks to stun their prey, but they are immune to their own jolts – and tests suggest they may be immune to being shocked at all
