Animals

  1. Animals

    Don’t blame the guys

    Scientists take a new look at what drives female damselflies to look like males.

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  2. Animals

    Peril of play

    A new study shows that playful 2-year-old chimpanzees may be particularly vulnerable to infectious diseases — some caught from humans.

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  3. Animals

    Squeaky chimp sex, or not

    Female chimps tend toward silent sex when the other girls could overhear.

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  4. Animals

    Invasion of the salmon

    Chinook salmon, dwindling in the United States, go wild in South America.

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  5. Animals

    BOOK LIST | Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would Be Human

    The story of a chimp being raised by humans —and washing the dishes (p.130). NIM CHIMPSKY: THE CHIMP WHO WOULD BE HUMAN Bantam Books, 2008, 269 p., $23.

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  6. Life

    Zombie babysitters

    Wasp attack creates undead caterpillars that protect wasp young

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  7. Animals

    Not so prudish after all

    Unsuspected genetic diversity found in asexual animals.

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  8. Animals

    How they shine

    Iridescence could be pretty meaningful—or maybe just pretty.

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  9. Animals

    Pandamonium over a Tiny Pest

    A parasite threatens efforts to protect China's endangered icon.

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  10. Animals

    Courting both ways

    Some extra dopamine, and male fruit flies like boys too.

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  11. Life

    These colors don’t run

    A chameleon employs different color-changing defenses depending on its predator.

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  12. Animals

    Wild innovation

    Researchers have published a rare description of a wild chimpanzee devising and modifying a novel form of tool use.

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