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A hairy-legged vampire bat (Diphylla ecaudata)

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Bird-loving vampire bats develop taste for human blood

Bats in Brazil exclusively feed on bird blood, but new arrivals in their territory are now on the menu – they have been caught feasting on human blood

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Woman and pet dog

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This is why you can't help babbling to your dog like it's a baby

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Macaque monkey on the back of a Sika deer

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Wild monkey filmed mounting deer and trying to have sex with it

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Mother holding young child on her left side

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Why mums and babies prefer to keep to one side of each other

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Two chimpanzees

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Oxytocin surge before a fight helps chimps bond with their group

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Fox eating from bin

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There are five times more urban foxes in England than we thought

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Deep sea crabs clean each other

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Cannibalistic deep-sea crabs groom each other like chimpanzees

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caribou

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Reindeer riddle: How do you tell caribou apart?

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Animal magnetism: Why dogs do their business pointing north

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Humans are better endurance runners than any other animal

Other species might be better at speed or distance, but no species can run faster, further under all conditions than humans can. And yes, that’s you too

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Why baby flatfish grow into the wonkiest animals in the world

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Whales talk to each other by slapping out messages on water

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Earwigs and rotten panther: The diet of a Victorian eccentric

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Coconut crab’s bone-crushing grip is 10 times stronger than ours

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