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Probability helps zebrafish stay in schools when faced with predators
Fish track the movement of their neighbours to swim in dense schools as they flee predators 鈥� and they pay more attention to the motion of some fish than others
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We’ve dug up tiny animals from beneath a frozen Antarctic lake
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Long-eared jerboas have some of the most outsized ears on the planet
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Long penises help hermit crabs avoid being robbed during sex
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How hagfish can make enough slime to clog a shark’s jaws in seconds
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Dolphins unintentionally poisoning offspring with banned chemicals
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Environment
Millions of years ago a massive whale-eating whale roamed the seas
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Crows can guess the weight of an object by watching it sway in wind
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Core set of genes explain why some animals stick to one mate at a time
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Rabbits that don’t eat their own faeces are small and weak
We know that rabbits eat some of their own聽faeces - they may do so in order to better metabolise their food so they can grow larger
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Leafcutter ants have their own landfill sites that emit greenhouse gas
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Lost ‘Darwinia’ islands could be origin of species in the Galapagos
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Cannibalistic African clawed frog eats tadpoles of its relatives
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Crayfish experience something like anxiety when they shed their armour
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