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Squawk bots: Can generative AI lead us to understanding animals?

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Canaries in coal mines (2018)

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No one wants to have kids anymore

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Parasite gives wolves what it takes to be pack leaders

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Strong behavioral individuality is present at the first day after birth in fish

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Peto’s Paradox

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Elites tried to monopolize hunting

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Nocturnal bottleneck

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How do other animals see the world?

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A frog so small, it could not frog

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Mouse Heaven or Mouse Hell?

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Evolution is not a tree of life but a fuzzy network

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Social animals seek power in surprisingly complex ways

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Facebook ads told me to become a certified cryptozoologist, so I did

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Spiders are much smarter than you think

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Dog coat colour genetics

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On the link between great thinking and obsessive walking

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Animals changed by proximity to humans

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Toxoplasmosis: The Cat Poop Parasite That's Probably in Your Brain

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The Big Alien Theory

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Foraging humans, mammals and birds who live in the same place behave similarly

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Want to Get Out Alive? Follow the Ants

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Storks Deliver Babies (p= 0.008)

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The Toxoplasma of Rage (2014)

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Animals Use Social Distancing to Avoid Disease

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One of Darwin's evolution theories finally proved by Cambridge researcher

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Cat Colors

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Telomere shortening rate predicts species life span

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Ancient DNA Illuminates Pastoralism’s Rise in Africa

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Animal cultures: how we've only seen the tip of the iceberg

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Sexy weasels in Renaissance art

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Ultima Online spent years developing a system that was destroyed by players

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A History of the Sentence "Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo." (1999-2015)

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Why Envy Might Be Good for Us

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Humans Are Turning Mammals More Nocturnal

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Heredity Beyond the Gene

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Why dolphins are deep thinkers (2003)

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Inequality in nature and society

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Are Hunter-Gatherers The Happiest Humans To Inhabit Earth?

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Easter Island: a sustainable society has been falsely blamed for its own demise

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Two museums having an informative fight on Twitter

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Why the long-term future of humanity matters more than anything else

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Can we know what animals are thinking?

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Evidence that ancient farms had different origins than previously thought

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Study of ancient and modern cat genomes reveals an unusual history

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We Aren’t Built to Live in the Moment

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Why Are There So Many 17th Century Paintings of Monkeys Getting Drunk?

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In Pieces – A CSS-based exhibition celebrating evolutionary distinction

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Survival of the Friendliest

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The myth of the pristine Amazon rainforest

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Bigger brains are not always better

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Live slow, die old: Mounting evidence for caloric restriction in humans

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How many animals can one find in a random image?

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Salto – UC Berkeley’s Agile Jumping Robot

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How and why did humans domesticate animals?

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Why is everything an orchid?

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Learning about evolution from species who thrive without sexual reproduction

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Strategies of Human Mating (2006) [pdf]

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Nature’s libraries are the fountains of biological innovation

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Why Do Islands Induce Dwarfism?

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The Big Alien Theory

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Bot that uses deep neural networks to generate plausible definitions of words

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Animals think, therefore...

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The more we study dolphins, the brighter they turn out to be (2003)

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The culture where play is shameful (2012)

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Top Design Flaws in the Human Body: Our bodies are full of hack solutions

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Alligator Eggs

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Misconceptions about Evolution

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Nature makes all articles free to view

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Are fish more intelligent than we realize?

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Animals in the wild found to use running wheel if given the choice

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Ants show that emergency exits can work better when they’re obstructed

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On being the right size (1928)

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Misconceptions about evolution

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The Girl Who Turned to Bone

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Alligator Eggs

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The humans who outrun horses

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Why Are American Kids So Spoiled?

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We're Underestimating the Risk of Human Extinction

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Humans hot, sweaty, natural-born runners

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Fun with math: Dividing one by 998001 yields a surprising result

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Iterating Towards Bethlehem

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Cobra effect

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When hard books disappear

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The longest cell in the history of life

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Die young, live fast: The evolution of an underclass

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Why dolphins are deep thinkers

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Cats that fetch are an evolutionary mystery

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Island gigantism

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Researchers find signs of intelligence among jumping spiders

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Evolution: Fast or slow? Lizards help resolve a paradox

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Future of Humanity Institute shuts down

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Toxoplasma Gondii significantly alters wolf behavior

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Why blue animals are so rare

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We can and should domesticate raccoons

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