Animals Doing Human Things
Crows that make tools, fish that farm, monkeys that floss.
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Crows that make tools, fish that farm, monkeys that floss.
37 sentences
1Ants farm fungus, herd aphids and wage wars between colonies that can stretch along whole coasts.
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1Bats that see with sound, drink nectar and catch moths in midair.
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1The strange bargains people have struck with bees, from honey hunts to old swarm laws.
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1Worshipped in Egypt, feared in Europe: the strange story of cats and people.
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1A Nile crocodile called Gustave was blamed for so many attacks it became a legend.
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1Bites, stings, venom and shocks: how animals large and small can hurt.
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1How a puppy becomes a dog with a job, and the surprising work dogs do for us.
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1Soldiers, astronauts and a few who changed the law: dogs who did more than fetch.
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1The rivals, lucky children and fakers who dug dinosaurs out of the ground.
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1A parasite can make a cricket jump into water so the worm inside can swim away.
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1Octopuses have slipped out of aquarium tanks at night and been found in other tanks.
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1Penguins that court with pebbles, huddle through storms and never once learned to fly.
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1Giant predators of ancient oceans, from armoured fish and sharks to marine reptiles that ruled the seas.
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1Thousands of bees with no one in charge still vote on a new home and agree.
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1Some snakes glide between trees, and one plays dead so well it even bleeds.
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1A diving spider lives underwater in a bubble of air it carries down itself.
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1Water bears that survive the vacuum of space, boiling heat and years without water.
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1Some lizards squirt blood from their eyes to put off a hungry fox.
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1A Brazilian viper's venom led to one of the most used blood-pressure drugs.
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1Why your cat kneads, purrs and drags you a dead mouse, mostly for reasons of its own.
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1The guilty look is no confession, just a dog reading your mood.
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1Some sharks must keep swimming to breathe, and some walk on their fins.
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1We once drew dinosaurs with dragging tails and bare skin, and we were wrong.
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