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When Animals Dream review: Making the case for ‘animalhood’
In his new book, David Pe帽a-Guzm谩n argues that animals that can dream have a sense of self, and therefore a far more complex kind of "animalhood" than we thought possible
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Are these spiders dreaming? REM-like sleep exhibited in arachnids
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Pobblebonk frogs have a weird trick for surviving very acidic pools
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Deer in Costa Rica gnaw on sea turtle bones
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Backpack-wearing rats could start search-and-rescue missions next year
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Lizard unfurls its face like a flower as a way to scare off predators
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Watch salamanders ‘skydive’ in a miniature wind tunnel
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Noisy boats over the Great Barrier Reef are cutting fish lives short
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Hungry worms will risk being hurt if it helps them reach a meal
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Watch male orb-weaving spiders catapult off females to escape death
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
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Dolphins who are hand-fed by tourists are less social than their peers
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Tardigrades can hitch-hike on snails to travel longer distances
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Blind Mexican cave fish are developing cave-specific accents
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Common swifts enter hibernation-like torpor on cold nights
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