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The African eel that travels light
Fins were a key innovation in the evolution of vertebrates – but one eel in Lake Taganyika hasn't let that get in the way of a minimalist lifestyle
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Zoologger: The only primate that eats its dinner twice
00:01 30 March 2011
What has a huge and possibly extremely sexy nose, and has unique cud-chewing habits?
Zoologger: Biofuel powers biggest flying marsupial
18:26 23 March 2011
Leaping from tree to tree and living almost entirely on eucalypt leaves, the greater glider is like a flying koala – a koala with big problems
Zoologger: Cryo-frog survives deep freeze
18:33 17 March 2011 | 1 comment
Still another animal that makes humans look like wimps: the brown tree frog survives being frozen by secreting protective chemicals from its skin
Zoologger: Megamouth, the shark that has to suck it up
16:49 09 March 2011 | 3 comments
The megamouth shark has a maw one-fifth the length of its body, but what in the name of Darwin is it for?
SYMBION
Zoologger: The most bizarre life story on Earth?
There's something strange living on lobster mouths – an animal unlike any other, with an astonishingly complex way of reproducing itself
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Zoologger: The hairy beast with seven fuzzy sexes
17:33 02 March 2011
What it lacks in size, one single-celled animal more than makes up for in sexual exploits: it has not two but seven sexes
Zoologger: Australia's truly glamorous camper
12:00 25 February 2011
When the Australian leafcutter shelters from predators in a tent, it goes for the deluxe option – a transparent canopy of silk
Zoologger: Jet-propelled living fossil with a problem
17:11 17 February 2011
With 500 million years of evolution behind it, the nautilus has coped with mass extinctions, jet propulsion and even mazes. We are more of a challenge
Zoologger: The sharpest mind in the farmyard
18:05 09 February 2011 | 2 comments
Their dumb reputation belies their abilities – sheep can pass a psychological test that many primates struggle with
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Zoologger: The largest arthropod to prowl the land
As the sun sets over a beautiful Pacific island, a monster crab emerges from its burrow