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animals

Spiders eat more prey than humans

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Spiders eat twice as much animal prey as humans do in a year

They may be tiny but spiders chomp through an estimated 800 million tonnes of mainly insect prey a year, compared with our 400 million tonnes of meat and fish

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Dog

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Dogs use deception to get what they want from humans (a sausage)

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Sociable woodpeckers that cooperate have evolved smaller brains

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Sociable woodpeckers that cooperate have evolved smaller brains

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True's beaked whale

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First-ever underwater video of the elusive True's beaked whale

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Bees can smell their footprints

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Bumblebees can tell who visited flowers by smelly footprints

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Bomb crater pond

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WW2 bomb craters are a home to rare and vulnerable animals

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A wasp on its nest

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Stubborn wasp queens pass their personality on to their colony

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Tiptoeing termites bang their heads to mimic ant footsteps

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Tiptoeing termites bang their heads to mimic ant footsteps

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Caterpillars vibrate anuses to send food and shelter alerts

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Caterpillars vibrate anuses to send food and shelter alerts

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Bees learn to play golf and show off how clever they really are

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Bees learn to play golf and show off how clever they really are

Bumblebees have shown they can learn how to push a ball into a hole to get a reward, staking their claim to be considered tool users

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Humans in panda suits try to track down bears in the woods

Regulars

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Big builder ants and tiny guard ants live together in one nest

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Slaughter of an American icon: The Yellowstone buffalo cull

Features

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Deep-sea squid points a big, bulging eye up and a tiny eye down

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