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grizzly bears

Life

Male and female mammals kill their own species for different reasons

Adult mammals have the capacity to kill other members of their own species, but males generally seem to kill to reduce competition while females kill to protect their young

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dog with bowl

Life

Dogs will ignore you if they know you are lying, unlike young children

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Can a robot ever be conscious and how would we know if it were?

Technology

Can a robot ever be conscious and how would we know if it were?

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What is consciousness like for other animals and when did it evolve?

Life

What is consciousness like for other animals and when did it evolve?

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vampire bat

Life

Female vampire bats groom each other and share their food

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shark

Life

Sharks in the Gulf of Mexico hunt in shifts to avoid each other

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Meerkats hugging each other

Environment

Meerkats in zoos don’t put as much effort into social niceties

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computer simulations

Technology

AIs don't understand simple physics like a ball rolling down a hill

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Can we use nudge theory to help endangered animals save themselves?

Life

Can we use nudge theory to help endangered animals save themselves?

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eel

Life

Young eels escape from the mouths of fish by wriggling out the gills

Juvenile eels captured by fish have been filmed escaping by wriggling backwards through the predators' gills, a unique behaviour never seen before

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Technology

Facebook AI aims to identify deepfake images and trace their creators

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Life

Fox-breeding experiment suggests domestication can boost brain size

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Life

Female seahorses cheat on their mate when they can no longer smell him

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Technology

DeepMind AI taught digital people to play football from scratch

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