Animal Behavior
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The Most Dangerous Shark
There are at least ten species of sharks that will occasionally bite, and even kill, humans who enter their habitat. By far, however, the species responsible for the most attacks,…
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Using Chimps as Guinea Pigs
Great apes—chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans—will soon become exempt from medical research in the United States, if a U.S. congressman from Maryland gets his way. Republican Rep. Roscoe Bartlett recently introduced…
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Tortoise Helping a Buddy?
We found this video on another nature website, and the person who posted it seemed to be claiming that it represented an example of altruism in a reptile species. An…
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Moonlight Monkeys
The ‘night monkeys’ of Central and South America are unique among anthropoids, which are the most highly evolved groups of primates, and include monkeys, apes and humans. As their name…
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Cobra vs. Indian Mongoose
At the end of this video, the narrator says, “Rudyard Kipling would be proud.” Kipling was a British author who, in the late 1800’s wrote many stories about India’s people…
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Tool Use In Animals
It used to be that we humans believed tool use was one of the main things that separated us from the rest of the animals. Then the famed chimpanzee researcher…
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Can Bats and Windmills Coexist?
Today in Wildlife News & Wild Animal Facts All energy comes at a price, including every form of alternative energy–even when that energy is supplied by something as free as…
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