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Air jacket helps ‘scuba-diving’ lizards stay underwater for longer
Some lizards dive into streams to escape predators, and a specialised bubble-breathing technique enables them to stay submerged for up to 18 minutes
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Is life better as a dog? A philosopher investigates
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Fish size themselves up in a mirror to decide if they can win a fight
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Watch eels escape from the stomachs of fish after being swallowed
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Marmosets seem to call each other by name
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Leeches use their whole bodies to entomb and eat ultra-fast worms
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Charles Darwin鈥檚 frogs turn mating upside down
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Sea slugs discovered working together to hunt in packs
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Elephants seem to invent names for each other
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Hungry deer may have driven tiny plant evolution on Japanese island
On Yakushima island, sika deer might have forced flora to shrink as small as a tenth of the size of their mainland counterparts
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Don’t forget birds and bats when renovating or building new homes
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Wasps use face-recognition brain cells to identify each other
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Tiny nematode worms can grow enormous mouths and become cannibals
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Birds make an ‘after you’ gesture to prompt their mate to enter nest
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