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animals

Water snail Reymondia horeii

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Fish lure snails to their nest to help camouflage their babies

Baby cichlid fish masquerade as snails with mother luring more snails in, which allows the mother to spend less time chasing away predators

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Mouse

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Mice turn into killers when brain circuit is triggered by laser

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A hairy-legged vampire bat (Diphylla ecaudata)

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Bird-loving vampire bats develop taste for human blood

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Woman and pet dog

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This is why you can't help babbling to your dog like it's a baby

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Macaque monkey on the back of a Sika deer

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Wild monkey filmed mounting deer and trying to have sex with it

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Mother holding young child on her left side

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Why mums and babies prefer to keep to one side of each other

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Two chimpanzees

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Oxytocin surge before a fight helps chimps bond with their group

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Fox eating from bin

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There are five times more urban foxes in England than we thought

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Deep sea crabs clean each other

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Cannibalistic deep-sea crabs groom each other like chimpanzees

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caribou

Life

Reindeer riddle: How do you tell caribou apart?

Studying indigenous names for the animals may help us clear up a decades-long mix-up over caribou classification and reverse population decline

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Earth

Animal magnetism: Why dogs do their business pointing north

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Humans

Humans are better endurance runners than any other animal

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Why baby flatfish grow into the wonkiest animals in the world

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Whales talk to each other by slapping out messages on water

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