Animal behaviour
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Researchers find that dogs, like humans, appear to have memories linked to specific times and places
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Capuchins observed producing razor-edged stone pieces similar to earliest known hominin tools, rewriting view that only humans create such artefacts
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Rats spread disease, decimate crops and very occasionally eat people alive. For centuries, we have struggled to find an effective way of controlling their numbers. Until now…
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Some find spiders and their hairy legs terrifying. But research has shown those hairs are so sensitive they can detect human speech from several metres away
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Country Diary: Ouse Fen, Cambridgeshire There is a looseness, a jauntiness in an off-duty fox, an actor out of costume, performance over. But why was this one stopping so often?
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Country diary: Strathnairn, Highlands A squirrel at one of the wooden boxes suddenly darted along the branch and started gnawing away at the antler
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Survival tactic also increases chances of successful insemination, with the immature females able to store sperm until they reach adulthood
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Scientists have discovered a rare bird that uses sticks to find food – making it the latest addition to a select list that includes sea otters, elephants and octopuses
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Country diary: Wenlock Edge What determines that moment when they can stay no longer, when, come hell or high water, it’s time to go?
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Country Diary: Airedale, West Yorkshire By early September this stretch of river won’t be big enough for both birds
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Bird in Queensland’s Innisfail had come to associate people with being fed, says environment department, and decision to relocate it was taken ‘reluctantly’
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Shipping noise in the North Atlantic could impact population levels of the whales, new research shows
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Oxford researchers initially thought Betty the New Caledonian crow had come up with idea on the spot but further study finds her breed adept at making tools
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As a new cat-training manual is published, Kathryn Bromwich invites its author to meet reluctant, people-shy volunteer Betty
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Honeyguide birds are well known for signalling human honey hunters, but research shows that the communication goes both ways
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Study shows that deserts ants can walk and navigate backwards when moving oversized food, a discovery that could inform robotics, researchers say
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Biologists find that, given the choice, both aye aye lemurs and slow lorises will choose the most intoxicating drink when presented with different options
Animal magic Zoology news: November’s animal antics from around the globe – in pictures