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The animals revealing why human culture isn’t as special as we thought
Even animals with very small brains turn out to have cultural traditions, which poses a puzzler for biologists wondering what makes human culture unique
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Monkeys use crafty techniques to get junk food from tourists
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Cave spiders use their webs in a way that hasn’t been seen before
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Ancient wasp may have used its rear end to trap flies
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Why do giraffes have spots? Not for the reason you might think
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Chemistry
Foie gras made without force-feeding thanks to molecular mimicry
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Environment
How a surprising twist on rewilding could help settle our carbon debt
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Two-fingered dinosaur used its enormous claws to eat leaves
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Budgie brains have a map of vocal sounds just like humans
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What the extraordinary medical know-how of wild animals can teach us
Birds do it, chimps do it, even monarch butterflies do it 鈥� and by paying more attention to how animals self-medicate, we can find new treatments for ourselves
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Fossils reveal what the fur of early mammals looked like
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Male octopus injects female with venom during sex to avoid being eaten
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Gripping account of how plants and animals shaped each other
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Permafrost mummies are unlocking the secrets of prehistory
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