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animal behaviour

Song Sparrow (Melospiza melodia), British Columbia, Canada

Life

Fear of predators means sparrows struggle to raise chicks to adulthood

Sparrows on a collection of Canadian islands change their behaviour when they fear predators are nearby, and an experiment shows this reduces their ability to raise their offspring to adulthood

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Three chimps

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Chimpanzees spotted apparently using insects to treat their wounds

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Fruit flies

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Learning styles in fruit flies may not be related to nature or nurture

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baboon

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Female baboons that had a tough infancy are less sociable as adults

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W982GH --FILE--Female giant panda Tian Tian, or Sweetie, eats bamboo at the YaAn Bifengxia Base of China Conservation and Research Centre for the Giant Panda

Life

Giant pandas more likely to reject cubs after artificial insemination

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Hibernating thirteen-lined ground squirrel

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Hibernating ground squirrels recycle urine to maintain their muscles

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Largest ever fish colony hosts 100 billion eggs under Antarctic ice

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Largest ever fish colony hosts 100 billion eggs under Antarctic ice

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How to alter your personality: why your character isn't fixed in stone

How to alter your personality: why your character isn't fixed in stone

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How to alter your personality: why your character isn't fixed in stone

Mind

How to alter your personality: why your character isn't fixed in stone

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Bottlenose dolphins swim off the coast of South Carolina

Life

What dolphins reveal about the evolution of the clitoris

Patricia Brennan's latest research suggests that bottlenose dolphins have clitorises that evolved for pleasure. She tells 51¶¯Âþ why it's important to study animal genitalia

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Life

Fairywren birds can nest out of breeding season to boost numbers

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Environment

Australia’s bilbies and bettongs bounce back in predator-free areas

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Life

Archerfish prove they can count by spitting at computer screens

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Mind

Meet the scientists who perform magic tricks on birds

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