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A male cockatoo with a stick

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Birds play sick jungle beat with drumsticks they make themselves

In behaviour extraordinarily like ours, male palm cockatoos have been filmed making drumsticks and playing regular rhythms on hollow trees, to attract females

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A cougar kitten with a mule deer in its mouth

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Talk radio puts pumas off their meals so they may kill more deer

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Someone wearing a fox head mask in protest at the idea of bringing back fox hunting

Life

UK foxes thankfully spared the baying pack, unlike Theresa May

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wildebeest

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'Devil weeds' threaten wildebeest migrations in Serengeti

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Migrating wildebeest

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‘Devil weeds’ threaten wildebeest migrations in Serengeti

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Brain switch in voles makes them fall in love at first sight

Life

Brain switch in voles makes them fall in love at first sight

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Macaque with stolen goods

Life

Monkey mafia steal your stuff, then sell it back for a cracker

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Quit nature to save wolves and bears? There are better ways

Life

Quit nature to save wolves and bears? There are better ways

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A pair of cowpea seed beetles mating

Life

Traumatic beetle sex causes rapid evolutionary arms race

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Narwhal

Earth

Narwhals could help us measure melting glaciers underwater

A project off Greenland will tag whales with sensors to measure sea temperatures and ice melt in hard-to-reach places, improving predictions of sea-level rise

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Life

Frog skeleton allows them to jump horizontally or vertically

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Beaver dams keeps streams cool and protect sensitive fish

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Vultures smear their faces in red mud which they use as makeup

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Eggs four times bigger than ostriches’ reveal a giant dinosaur

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