By performing tricks for birds, monkeys, and other creatures, researchers hope to learn how they perceive and think about their world.
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Zoology
A tiny, charismatic frog in Brazil is revealing secrets of a killer fungus.
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My Octopus Teacher’s Craig Foster considers the uncharismatic.
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This unique community of orcas is starving to death.
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This island of macaques rebuilt their social networks after calamity.
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Lee Alan Dugatkin on his 3 greatest revelations while writing The Well-Connected Animal.
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Plainfin midshipman fish migrate from the deep sea to spawn—and then things get weird.
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A new consensus emerges.
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Four explosive tales of blood, spit, and venom.
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Donald Nelson spent his life undoing the damage that Jaws did to the perception of sharks.
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