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Mother with baby, among others, Lesser Dog-faced Fruit Bat (Cyneropterus brachyotis). Also called Short-nosed or Common Fruit Bat. Animals hanging in the roof. Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve, Singapore.

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Females are not smaller than males in most mammal species

The idea that male mammals are larger than females has persisted for more than a century, but an analysis of body mass and length in 400 mammal species shows it isn’t the norm

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H7WWT1 Magellanic Penguin (Spheniscus magellanicus) pair calling from burrow entrance, Volunteer Point, East Falkland Island, Falkland

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How climate change is forcing animals that mate for life to break up

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Traditional cooperative fishing between Lahille's bottlenose dolphins and artisanal net-casting fishers in Laguna, Brazil. CREDIT Photo by Mauricio Cantor, Department of Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation Sciences, Marine Mammal Institute, Oregon State University.

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Dolphins that help humans catch fish are more likely to survive

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Banded mongoose group approaching with curiosity (Mungos mungo). Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. March 2018.

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Inside the complex and extremely violent world of warring mongooses

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Dogs can tell when you want to give them a treat – even if you don’t

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A brown ghost knifefish

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Ghost knifefish make electric 'chirps' to spot where other fish are

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Slight overheating chicken eggs during their incubation makes male chicks more sociable

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Male chicks are more sociable if they were grown in warmer eggs

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Why we shouldn't attribute human motivations to animals like bees

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Why we shouldn't attribute human motivations to animals like bees

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Male and female gibbons sing duets in time with each other

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Finley, one of the sloths at The Sloth Sanctuary in Costa Rica. Credit: Ignacio Moya

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Sloths have double the grip strength of humans and other primates

Dangling from a tree with just a single foot, sloths can exert more gripping force relative to their weight than primates – and they are consistently, but mysteriously, stronger on their left side

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Some individual animals are really lazy. How do they get away with it?

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Elephant-nose fish do a little dance to help them 'see' in 3D

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Flying squirrels carve nuts to store them securely in tree branches

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Flying squirrels carve nuts to store them securely in tree branches

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