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How Migrating Birds Feel the Earth’s Magnetic Field
Every autumn, European robins that breed in Scandinavia leave for southern Europe and North Africa. Many of them fly at night, alone,…
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What Crows Actually Understand: Tool Use, Memory, and Grudges
In 2005, a New Caledonian crow named Betty was handed a straight piece of wire and a small bucket of food sitting…
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Tardigrades: The Animal That Can Survive Being Dried, Frozen, and Blasted With Radiation
Most animals die if you take away their water for more than a few days. Tardigrades, eight-legged creatures smaller than a grain…
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Do Elephants Grieve? What the Evidence Actually Shows
For decades the safe scientific position was that attributing grief to animals was projection, reading human emotion onto behavior that probably meant…
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The Octopus Has Nine Brains and Most of the Thinking Isn’t in Its Head
An octopus has about 500 million neurons, roughly on par with a dog. What makes an octopus strange isn’t the total number,…