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Alcohol consumption abundant in the natural world, study finds (www.theguardian.com)

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Cats are (almost) liquid!—Cats selectively rely on body size awareness when negotiating short openings (www.cell.com)

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Octopuses recorded hunting with fish — and punching those that don't cooperate (www.nbcnews.com)

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Do Animals Know That They Will Die? (www.theatlantic.com)

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Dogs can remember names of toys years after not seeing them, study shows (www.theguardian.com)

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Crows Are Even Smarter Than We Thought (nautil.us)

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Colorful Traits in Primates Ease Tensions Between Groups (www.news.uzh.ch)

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Cats appear to grieve death of fellow pets – even dogs, study finds (www.theguardian.com)

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Private Life Of A Cat (1947) (crazyturtleblog.blogspot.com)

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Elephants Are Doing Something Deeply Human (www.theatlantic.com)

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Wild elephants may have names that other elephants use to call them (www.npr.org)

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African elephants call each other by unique names, new study shows (www.ctvnews.ca)

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Orcas aren’t attacking boats — they’re just playful teens, scientists say (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Crows “count” the number of self-generated vocalizations (www.science.org)

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Parrots love playing tablet games. That’s helping researchers understand them. (news.northeastern.edu)

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Not just humans: Bees and chimps can also pass on their skills (phys.org)

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It’s the Cat’s Meow but You Just Don’t Understand (www.nytimes.com)

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Neurobiology: How bats distinguish different sounds (www.sciencedaily.com)

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Dog 'Language Geniuses' Are Rare but Apparently Real (www.scientificamerican.com)

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Physically impaired primates find ways to modify their behaviors to compensate for disabilities, find researchers (phys.org)

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Juvenile great apes love to tease and annoy their elders, study finds (www.theguardian.com)

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Wild Carrion Crows (Corvus corone) Autonomously Respond to Speech but Show No Difference in Their Response to a Local and a Foreign Language — Animal Behavior and Cognition (www.animalbehaviorandcognition.org)

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Do Cats Experience FOMO? (www.scientificamerican.com)

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When frogs can’t croak to get a mate, they dance (www.science.org)

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Artist trained rats to take selfies to make a point about social media (www.cbc.ca)

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