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Cuttlefish

Ageing cuttlefish can remember the details of last week鈥檚 dinner

18 Aug 2021

Cuttlefish can remember what, where, and when specific things happened 鈥 right up to their last few days of life, researchers have found.

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Monitoring the Meerkats of the Kalahari

16 Jul 2021

Getting close was a challenge. Cracking it was key to an incredible 30-year study of the wild meerkats of the Kalahari.

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It鈥檚 a kind of magic

06 Mar 2020

How trickster birds are helping a psychologist and magician understand how our minds work.

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Great tit and blue tit. Credit: Nataba, Adobe Stock images

Watching TV helps birds make better food choices

20 Feb 2020

By watching videos of each other eating, blue tits and great tits can learn to avoid foods that taste disgusting and are potentially toxic, a new...

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Cuttlefish. Image by Pauline Billard

Cuttlefish eat less for lunch when they know there鈥檒l be shrimp for dinner

04 Feb 2020

Cuttlefish can rapidly learn from experience and adapt their eating behaviour accordingly, a new study has shown.

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Gorillas found to live in 'complex' societies, suggesting deep roots of human social evolution

10 Jul 2019

Algorithms reveal 鈥渟ocial tiers鈥 in gorillas seen in only a few other species, such as dolphins and humans. Researchers suggest that some of these...

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Nicrophorus vespilloides with mites

Mighty mites give scrawny beetles the edge over bigger rivals

06 Mar 2019

Smaller beetles who consistently lose fights over resources can gain a competitive advantage over their larger rivals by teaming up with another...

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Stickleback

Shoals of sticklebacks differ in their collective personalities

07 Feb 2018

Research from the 探花直播 of Cambridge has revealed that, among schooling fish, groups can have different collective personalities, with some...

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Sheep

Researchers design AI system to assess pain levels in sheep

01 Jun 2017

An artificial intelligence system designed by researchers at the 探花直播 of Cambridge is able to detect pain levels in sheep, which could aid in...

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Speed of animal evolution enhanced by cooperative behaviour

26 May 2017

A study by scientists from the 探花直播 of Cambridge has revealed how cooperative behaviour between insect family members changes how rapidly body...

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Elephant body awareness tast

Elephants鈥 鈥榖ody awareness鈥 adds to increasing evidence of their intelligence

12 Apr 2017

Asian elephants are able to recognise their bodies as obstacles to success in problem-solving, further strengthening evidence of their intelligence...

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Why mole rats are more flexible than we previously thought

30 Aug 2016

One of the most interesting facts about mole rats 鈥 that, as with ants and termites, individuals specialise in particular tasks throughout their...

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