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Are we more closely related to cats or dogs?The answer of whether humans are more closely related to cats or dogs depends on how you look at the question.
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What's the difference between a lion and a tiger?One has stripes, and one doesn't. But do the differences between lions and tigers go deeper than that?
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Why do cats and dogs shake their heads?Life's Little Mysteries Cats often flick their heads back and forth as if they've been possessed. This strange reflex has a simple explanation.
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Chimpanzees in Uganda are locked in a deadly 'civil war' after their group split apart — and scientists don't know whyThe first well-observed "civil war" in wild chimpanzees reveals that shifting social ties alone can fracture a group, igniting deadly conflict between former friends.
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Critically endangered hare spotted in surprising location for the first time in 40 years — but it was already deadScientists in China have announced the first confirmed sighting of the critically endangered Hainan hare in part of its native range in four decades, after spotting its completely flattened carcass on a roadside.
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'Parasites of human societies': How did we end up so close to cats?Book In the book "The Call of the Honeyguide," applied ecologist Rob Dunn explores mutually beneficial relationships between different species. But Dunn argues the relationship between humans and cats may force a rethink of what shape these mutualisms can take.
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Bonobos are just as aggressive as chimps, but there's a key difference — the female bonobosA new study of chimpanzee and bonobo groups at zoos reveals similar levels of aggression. However, scientists found stark sex-based differences between the species.
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Scientists find 2 marsupial species, thought to have gone extinct 6,000 years ago, living in the forests of New GuineaThe pygmy long-fingered possum and the ring-tailed glider, two marsupials believed to have died out thousands of years ago, are still alive in Papuan Indonesia.
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'Striking' footage captures the moment a red fox preys on a wolf pup — a behavior never seen on film beforeScientists in Italy captured a red fox entering a den as part of a project to understand wolf population dynamics in the country.
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