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Male Arctic ground squirrels go through puberty every year. As if that wasn’t hard enough, now the females have a...
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Researchers have pinpointed genetic variants linked to different dog behaviours.Credit: Paul Bersebach/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register/Getty Is your dog scared by...
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The term splooting exploded on the internet shortly after the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation posted about...
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The late Peter Bogdanovich’s last dramatic feature was a screwball comedy with the original title “Squirrels to the Nuts.” Its...
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Researchers at the National Eye Institute (NEI) have discovered that power-producing organelles in the eye's photoreceptor cells, called mitochondria, function...
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When bears and ground squirrels hibernate in winter, they stop eating, lasting until spring simply on the fat reserves they've...
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Just because you're paranoid, that doesn't mean everything isn't actually trying to kill you. Ground squirrels have few natural defenses...
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Humans acknowledge that personality goes a long way, at least for our species. But scientists have been more hesitant to...
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Animal behaviour 05 August 2021 Squirrels show off multiple landing styles as they speed through the canopy. The acrobatic rodents...
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Videos of squirrels leaping from bendy branches across impossibly large gaps, parkouring off walls, scrambling to recover from tricky landings....