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animal behaviour

blue tit

Environment

Scottish blue tits mostly survive on food from garden bird feeders

Garden bird feed is the single most common food source found in a sample of blue tit faeces collected across Scotland

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Toxic beetle’s genetics reveals how evolution makes new organs

Life

Toxic beetle’s genetics reveals how evolution makes new organs

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Common swifts can fly more than 800 kilometres a day during migration

Life

Common swifts can fly more than 800 kilometres a day during migration

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mouse

Life

Female mice that lose a male partner are wary of taking a new one

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Hermit crabs choose by colour when selecting a new shell for a home

Life

Hermit crabs choose by colour when selecting a new shell for a home

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Rare video of giant squid reveals it stalks jellyfish in deep water

Life

Rare video of giant squid reveals it stalks jellyfish in deep water

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Short-beaked Echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus) adult, foraging for food, South Australia, Australia

Definition

Echidnas

Bats don’t have to learn the speed of sound – they’re born knowing it

Life

Bats don’t have to learn the speed of sound – they’re born knowing it

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Mice on opposite North American coasts evolved the same way

Life

Mice on opposite North American coasts evolved the same way

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White noise could warn birds to avoid colliding with tall structures

Life

White noise could warn birds to avoid colliding with tall structures

Broadcasting sound at oncoming birds can alert them to buildings or wind turbines, making them take a wider path around the structure and lowering their risk of collision

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Life

Honeybees stress each other out by warning about minor parasites

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Life

Male parasitic wasps can detect females inside an infected host fly

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Question

Why do dogs lick you?

Environment

AI face analysis can tell if cows and pigs are excited or stressed

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