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Changing your tune in hummingbirds

featured Changing your tune in hummingbirds

This large humming bird has now been seen to have a song-learning ability paralleling the parrot or even a primate; Hummingbird image; Credit: © Shutterstock When we learn a song,...

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Surprise in bee reproduction

Surprise in bee reproduction

Look out, there's a queen about! Bumblebees image; Credit: © Shutterstock How can an individual beat the system? Humans are quite good at it, and I suspect some dolphins are...

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The bigger the invader, the better

The bigger the invader, the better

Mission accomplished. The round goby has raced up the Danube at 15km a year and invaded the river systems of the major Western European rivers. It is already on a...

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Animals of the world, complete!

Animals of the world, complete!

We need to take a long hard look at the species of animals present on earth. Our record to date is so poor that many of us know only one...

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Travelling orang

Travelling orang

It's very hard to find orang-utans in the wild, but these two could be among those communicating in the paper we describe here; Image of Orang-utans; Credit: © Shutterstock The...

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Woolly mammoth range dynamics are discovered

Woolly mammoth range dynamics are discovered

This mammoth sees the winter arrive but many of his species will have died out, after the warmer summers following the last Ice Age drove them north; woolly image; Credit:...

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Mystery Orkney Islands genetics

Mystery Orkney Islands genetics

The common European vole is much less diverse across its range than the 5 island populations (no longer sub-species) found on the Orkneys. Go figure that out!; Field vole image;...

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Four centuries of forestry

Four centuries of forestry

The white tailed deer ranges far and wide, but she eats the acorns that could be providing the full succession of oakforest in some parts of the Virginian forests; here...

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A squids intelligent mimicry technique

A squids intelligent mimicry technique

(a) Grimalditeuthis bonplandi when first observed by the ROV at approximately 1000 m. The tentacle club is deployed approximately four mantle lengths anterior to the brachial crown. The chromatophores are...

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Goat History

Goat History

The kri kri is the wild Cretan goat, close to the original wild ancestor that existed 10,000 years ago. There are some distant relatives like the markhor still left too:...

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