Do Animals Have Culture Too?
From monkeys washing potatoes to cockatoos raiding trash cans, socially spread behaviors allow creatures to adapt
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New Spit Answers Raise More Spit Questions
Mucin, a key building block of saliva, is extremely good at evolving
Three Ecological Lessons From Toni Morrison
The Nobel winner had a keen eye for the natural world
This Invasive Fish Got an Anti-Racist Rebrand
What’s in a name? A lot.
Where the (Non-Native) Bison Roam
A bison colony abandoned by the 1920s movie industry is thriving off the coast of Los Angeles
Satellites Stalk Narwhals From Space, But They Still Keep Secrets
On being a mysterious being in a massive possible ocean
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Hunting Frogs on Islands in the Sky
Bruce Means is still looking for new species in Guyana and Venezuela while exploring the “Lost World Hypothesis”
New Hope for LA’s Mountain Lions
Construction starts on the world’s largest wildlife crossing, giving lions and other animals safe passage over the US 101 freeway
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Bear Hibernation: More Than a Winter’s Nap
The creatures’ annual protracted snoozes have much to tell us about the biology of mammals
