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Orca seen foster parenting a pilot whale calf for first time

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Orca seen foster parenting a pilot whale calf for first time

The first documented case of cross-species parental behaviour among whales has led researchers to wonder whether a long-finned pilot whale calf was adopted or abducted by an orca

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Bumblebees can teach each other how to open a puzzle box

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Ginger kitten playing with a cardboard box.

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Surprising new research on cats will make you see yours in a new light

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Mother with baby, among others, Lesser Dog-faced Fruit Bat (Cyneropterus brachyotis). Also called Short-nosed or Common Fruit Bat. Animals hanging in the roof. Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve, Singapore.

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Females are not smaller than males in most mammal species

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H7WWT1 Magellanic Penguin (Spheniscus magellanicus) pair calling from burrow entrance, Volunteer Point, East Falkland Island, Falkland

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How climate change is forcing animals that mate for life to break up

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Goffin's cockatoo using tools

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Cockatoos understand when a job requires a toolkit

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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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Banded mongoose group approaching with curiosity (Mungos mungo). Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. March 2018.

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Inside the complex and extremely violent world of warring mongooses

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Dogs can tell when you want to give them a treat – even if you don’t

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A brown ghost knifefish

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Ghost knifefish make electric 'chirps' to spot where other fish are

It has long been thought that the electrical chirps of brown ghost knifefish are for communication, but they might instead help improve electrolocation

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Children aged 5 are better at switching their attention than chimps

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Male chicks are more sociable if they were grown in warmer eggs

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Why we shouldn't attribute human motivations to animals like bees

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Male and female gibbons sing duets in time with each other

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