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Pandas don't lack sex drive, they just need to fancy each other

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Pandas don't lack sex drive, they just need to fancy each other

Giant pandas have a reputation for sexual apathy, but it turns out they are as frisky as any other animal - provided they find the other panda attractive

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Birds prefer to eat at outdoor cafes with slow plate-clearing

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Birds prefer to eat at outdoor cafes with slow plate-clearing

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Two whales killed by sole fish stuck in their blowholes

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Two whales killed by sole fish stuck in their blowholes

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Koalas' love of sex with neighbours protects against inbreeding

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Koalas' love of sex with neighbours protects against inbreeding

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African grey parrot numbers plummet by 99 per cent in Ghana

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African grey parrot numbers plummet by 99 per cent in Ghana

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Why marrying ecology and economics is essential

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Why marrying ecology and economics is essential

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Meet Sméagol, the eyeless cave-dwelling daddy long-legs

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Meet Sméagol, the eyeless cave-dwelling daddy long-legs

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Global amphibian killer eliminated in wild for the first time

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Global amphibian killer eliminated in wild for the first time

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Free-diver enlisted to help tag twitchy hammerhead sharks

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Free-diver enlisted to help tag twitchy hammerhead sharks

The endangered sharks form large schools and no one knows why. A gentler way of tagging them may help yield the secrets of their social lives, finds David Jacoby

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Vitamin supplements could save critically endangered kakapo

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Lion populations to halve in most of Africa in next 20 years

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Bumblebees cope with climate change by evolving shorter tongues

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Endangered alien-like conch could be saved by stomach guest

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