Category: Animal behaviour
Atlantic mollies will shift their attentions to smaller, less preferred females if other males are watching.
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Category: Animals
Pen-tailed treeshrews drink the alcoholic nectar of the bertam palm at levels that would intoxicate a human.
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Category: Language
Cunning experiments show how languages 'adapt' to become more structured and easily learned as they're passed on.
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Category: Bats
In a (very) loose tie-in with the recent release of the Dark Knight, it's Bat Weekend at Not Exactly Rocket Science, where I'll be reposting a few old but relevant pieces. If you were a biologist looking for astounding...
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Category: Parasites
A substantial portion of living tissue in river estuaries is under the control of parasites.
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Category: Personal
Soooo.... When I started this blog, the intention was to try and use well-written articles on cool discoveries to get people who wouldn't normally read science blogs to be interested in science. I've now been writing for almost two years...
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Category: Corals
Completely banning fishing on the Great Barrier Reef has unexpectedly prevented outbreaks of crown-of-thorns starfish
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Category: Spiders
Cooperatively hunting spiders feed more efficiently with family members than strangers, providing support for kin selection theory
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Category: Animals
Its claw hits with the force of a rifle bullet and boils the water in front of it.
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Category: Animal communication
The grunts of toadfishes are driven by a network of neurons that's conserved in all vocal vertebrates
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