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animals

A white rodent eating a chocolate snack

Life

Smart lab rats filmed using hooked tools to get chocolate cereal

Lock up your cereal. Rats can learn to use tools, such as hooked rakes, to reach food, and they can even choose the right tool for the job

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beaver underwater

Life

How beavers could help save the western US from a dry future

Features

Robert Pitman

Life

I saw humpback whales save a seal from death by killer whale

Features

deformed dolphin with whale

Life

Animal heroes that save other species: Five amazing stories

Features

The spider has a crayfish under its fangs on a rock

Life

Spider spotted chaining wild crayfish with silk before devouring

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cat

Life

Complex cats: Let's see our feline friends as they really are

Culture

A close-up of a bee perched on the stem of a plant

Life

Insects may have feelings, so do we need more humane fly spray?

Comment

Lioness with dart

Life

Five wild lionesses grow a mane and start acting like males

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blue-capped cordon-bleu bird

Life

Tap-dancing songbirds drum with their feet to attract mates

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A Hawaiian crow using a stick as a tool

Life

Hawaiian crows can use sticks as tools but are nearly extinct

Like their cousins the New Caledonian crows, island-welling Hawaiian crows seem naturally disposed to using tools for getting food

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Earth

More than half of UK species in decline – some may soon vanish

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Technology

World's first 'nanofish' could be used as guided drug missiles

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Life

White killer whales were a legend – now they are everywhere

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Life

Animal sound symphony tells us new things about our world

Culture

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