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

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

25 April 2022

For the first time, spiders have been observed escaping sexual cannibalism by flinging themselves away from females, reaching speeds of up to 88.2 centimetres per second
Bottlenose dolphins being fed

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

20 April 2022

Tourists can hand-feed some dolphins around the coast of Australia, but dolphins fed this way are less likely to form strong social bonds with their peers

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