Animals

  1. Animals

    Robin stole credit for Batman’s deeds

    Bats turn out to be overlooked but significant eaters of insects, pests and other arthropods on shade-grown coffee farms and in tropical forests.

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  2. Animals

    Comb jellies take root in a new tree of animal life

    A team of biologists places comb jellies, not sponges, at the base of a new tree of animal life.

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  3. Animals

    Night Flights: Migrating moths may use a nighttime compass

    Silver Y moths choose to fly when wind blows in the same direction that they migrate, and they may even compensate when the wind pushes them off-course.

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  4. Animals

    Farm girl has the chops

    The first big family tree presenting the history of fungus-growing ants shows the leaf-cutters as the newest branch, and a very recent one at that.

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  5. Animals

    Finch Concerts: Female bird brain notes male attention

    Male zebra finches sing slightly differently when serenading a female as opposed to twittering to themselves, and females react to those differences.

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  6. Animals

    Love Code: A twist of light only mantis shrimp can see

    Alone in the animal kingdom, these crustaceans signal their presence to potential mates with circularly polarized light.

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  7. Animals

    Moths’ memories

    Sphinx moths appear to remember experiences they had as caterpillars, suggesting some brain cells remain intact through metamorphosis.

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  8. Animals

    Gator Aids: Gators squish lungs around to dive and roll

    Alligator researchers say they have discovered a new role for lungs as maneuvering aids under water.

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    Hidden Depths: Antarctic krill startle deep-ocean scientists

    The first camera lowered 3,000 meters to the seabed off the coast of Antarctica videoed what biologists identify as the supposedly upper-ocean species of Antarctic krill.

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  10. Animals

    Great spots for white sharks

    The great white sharks of the eastern Pacific may be genetically isolated from the world's other white sharks, and tagging data reveal that the animals stick to specific routes and destinations.

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  11. Animals

    People bring both risk and reward to chimps

    Tolerating human researchers and ecotourists brought a group of chimpanzees a higher risk of catching human diseases but a lower chance of attacks from poachers.

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  12. Animals

    Bird fads weaken sexual selection

    There's a new look for a hot male among lark buntings every year.

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