The doomed mouse utopia that inspired the ‘Rats of NIMH’. Dr. John Bumpass Calhoun spent the ’60s and ’70s playing god to thousands of rodents.
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Book review: Are We Smart Enough To Know How Smart Animals Are?
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How is this horse feeling? New mobile brain wave reader could tell.
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Pigs can play video games with their snouts, scientists find
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Canada's sparrows are singing a new song. You'll hear it soon.
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Shimmering schools of fish have dazzled scientists for centuries with their synchronized maneuvers. Now, high-speed video is revealing how—and why—they do it
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Upside-down jellyfish lob tiny grenades to kill prey
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Scientists taught rats to play hide-and-seek with them
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Anglerfish are increasingly being captured on video, revealing an array of surprising behaviors
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Whistling while they work: Cooperative laguna dolphins have a unique accent
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Snowball the dancing cockatoo has wide range of killer moves, new study finds
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Researchers strapped video cameras on sixteen cats and let them do their thing. Here’s what they found. (Q&A with Maren Huck about her recent study in Applied Animal Behaviour Science)
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Ravens spread negative emotions to their friends, study finds
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The Iranian spider-tailed viper preys on birds by luring them with a spider-shaped bulge on its tail
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Island birds would likely beat their mainland relatives in a battle of wits
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Parrot's unique brain structure explains why they're so smart
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Why do humans kiss each other when most animals don't?
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Math bee: Honeybees seem to understand the notion of zero
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Dance of the Honeybees: By pairing the sun’s direction with the flow of gravity, honeybees explain the distant locations of food by dancing, essentially using 2D representations of 6D shapes as guides
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3D scans reveal deep-sea anglerfish's huge final meal
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So ... Sometimes fireflies eat other fireflies
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