The world's most extraordinary animals
236 videos • 124,843 views • by New Scientist
A collection of the most extraordinary and rarest animal behaviour from around the world.
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Watch an elephant master showering using a hose
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This drone can follow a bee’s movements using a robotic tracking system
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Comb jellies fuse together to make one individual
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Watch octopuses and fish hunt as a team to catch more prey
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This fish sizes it itself up in a mirror before it decides to fight
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Backflipping springtails are the fastest spinners known in nature
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Red-billed choughs successfully lay eggs in first year of a reintroduction project
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Endangered skates saved from extinction by hatching in captivity
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These frogs mate upside-down, possibly as a defense against jealous males
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Watch a leech use its body to entomb and eat worms
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Chimps trade gestures at a similar speed to humans
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Ants amputate their nestmates’ limbs to save them from infection
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Watch leeches jump by coiling their bodies like cobras
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Watch time-lapse of bird-eating beetles strip avian flesh for science
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Single-celled predator hyperextends 'neck' up to 30 times its body length
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What happens when you give ants caffeine?
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Zebras bob their heads at each other to signal cooperation
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Baby sharks gather in 'nurseries' close to the shore
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Baby sharks gather in 'nurseries' close to the shore
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100 new ocean species discovered in New Zealand
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Chimpanzee mothers play with their kids, even when times are tough
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Bumblebees show each other how to solve complex puzzles
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Bumblebees show each other how to solve complex puzzles
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Why striped marlin change colour when hunting
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Tiny fish make sounds as loud as firecrackers
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More than 100 new marine species discovered
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Bizarre hingemouth fish can extend its mouth to make a kind of trunk
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Poison frogs tap-dance to rouse prey
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Watch mischievous apes playfully tease each other
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Watch female scorpions get stung by males during sex
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How do parrots swing on a branch?
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How do water striders survive a raindrop?
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Four new octopus species have been discovered
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Numbats are overheating because Australia is getting too hot for them
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Striated caracara's puzzle-solving abilities match that of Goffin’s cockatoos
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Bat uses its huge penis like an arm during sex
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First footage of rare echidna species named after broadcaster David Attenborough
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Slo-mo footage reveals how hummingbirds fly through tiny gaps
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Rats navigate VR environment using their imagination to mentally recreate places they've visited
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Winning images from Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2023
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Human voices are scarier than a lion's growl for savannah animals
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Mosquitoes dodge efforts to swat them by surfing a wave of air
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These are the deepest fish ever filmed
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Emperor penguin colonies lost all their chicks due to ice breakup
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Watch small fish hide behind other bigger fish to sneak up on its prey
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Nightingales match the pitch of their rivals in singing duels
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Red-billed choughs return to south-east England after 200 years
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Watch an octopus dream and replay colours during a REM-like sleep state
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Whale shark seen bottom feeding for the first time
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New box jellyfish species discovered in Hong Kong
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Seahorses use two spring-like tendons to hunt with super strong gulp
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How sandgrouse carry water to their fledglings
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Watch Chilean flamingos get dizzy for dinner
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These are the deepest fish ever filmed
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Predatory fox Rambo is no more, paving way for locally extinct species to return to Pilliga
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Wild Isles sneak peek: David Attenborough's new show pits puffins against black-headed gulls
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Watch a porpoise catch fish using echolocation
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Ancient Norse sea monsters may be whales displaying unusual feeding behaviour
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Watch sharpshooter insects launch urine droplets from anal catapult
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Cockatoos can use a set of tools to retrieve rewards
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Banded mongooses provoked into battle frenzy by researchers in Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda
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Dolphins work alongside human fishermen to catch fish
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Millions of turtles emerge at world's largest hatching event
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Gibbons sing duets with rhythmic qualities to help build social bonds
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Bull released at rewilding project completes UK wild bison herd
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Glassfrogs turn transparent by storing blood in their liver
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Watch male wasps use spiky genitals to defend themselves from predators
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How flying squirrels carve nuts to store them securely in tree branches
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How jellyfish-like siphonophores are built for both speed and efficiency
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Rats bop to the beat of Lady Gaga, Queeen and Mozart, just like humans
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Female octopuses intentionally throw debris at harassing males
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Slo-mo camera reveals why springtails land perfectly every time
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Watch bumblebees play with toys simply for fun
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Hear the sounds of animals thought to be silent...until now
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Eurasian jays pass marshmallow test, linking self-control with intelligence in birds
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Meet the first baby bison born at UK rewilding project
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World's heaviest bony fish weighs in at a whopping 2744 kilograms
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Female robins are just as good singers as males
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Smaller male hummingbirds may have an advantage producing intense aerial displays
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Cockatoos are in a "cultural arms race" with Sydney residents and their bins
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Chimps in Uganda have their own signature rhythms when drumming on trees
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Chimps in Uganda have their own signature rhythms when drumming on trees
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Coelacanth fish CT scan reveals how it can float vertically across sea bed
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Watch sea sponges 'sneeze' to remove pollutants in microscopic time-lapse video
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Are these spiders dreaming? REM-like sleep in arachnids could unlock the mystery of dreams
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Stingrays recorded making sounds in the wild for the first time
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Animal magic: The scientists who do magic tricks on jays
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Watch the moment bison were released into UK as part of rewilding project
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Slo-mo woodpecker video upends why we think they have spongy skulls
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Rats wearing backpacks are being trained for search and rescue
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“Superworm” beetle larvae eat polystyrene, which may help recycle plastics
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Can we protect coral reefs by growing them under offshore wind farms?
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Salamanders in a wind tunnel float in a skydiver position
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Dolphins queue up to rub against corals with antibacterial properties
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Watch coral create conveyor belts of mucus to share food
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Why male manakin mating dances are better if you're smaller
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Secrets of frog song mating calls revealed with acoustic camera
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Spider avoids being eaten after sex by launching itself away at 88cm/s
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Antarctic Gentoo penguins found breeding further south due to climate change
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First moments of rare Sumatran tiger cub born at ZSL London Zoo
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White rhino DNA extracted during post-mortem could be boost for conservation efforts
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White rhino DNA extracted during post-mortem could be boost for conservation efforts
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Asian honeybees scream in alarm when giant hornets attack the hive
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Watch first footage of Asia’s long-lost bird, the black-browed babbler
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Bats’ landing styles differ depending on where they roost
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These female butterflies can see an extra ultraviolet colour
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Watch cuttlefish migrate together in a defensive line with a lookout
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Animals at London zoo get their annual weigh-in
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Male bigfin reef squid may be the best fathers of all cephalopods
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Fighting octopuses may be using shells as weapons
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Wild cockatoos make "cutlery" utensils out of tree branches to open fruit pits
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Ants use soil physics to excavate metre-long tunnels that last decades
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Magic trick reveals sharp memory and future planning in Eurasian jays
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Dolphins spotted trapping fish in mud rings in the Caribbean
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Cockatoos are figuring out how to open bins by copying each other
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Sharks' spiral-shaped intestines resemble a Nikola Tesla invention
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The language puzzle: What great apes can teach us about the evolution of speech
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Meet Rashford, the first baby beaver born in Exmoor, UK for 400 years
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Watch grey reef sharks surfing currents to conserve energy
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Mongooses create fairer society through 'veil of ignorance'
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Rare video of giant squid reveals it stalks jellyfish in deep water
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Male lyrebirds imitate a flock of birds to scare females into mating
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Life found beneath Antarctic ice sheet 'shouldn't be there'
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Naked mole rats mimic the dialect of their colony’s queen
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Jellyfish create vortex rings to swim faster
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Exploring Earth's deepest abyss
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Lyrebird mimics construction sounds
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Female praying mantis eats her lover during sex
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Giant glowing worm lights up the ocean
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Ladybugs fold their wings like origami
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Photographer Tim Flach captures horses as never before
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Bees whoop when they bump into each other
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Baby gorilla takes first steps
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Ghostly snailfish breaks record for deepest living fish
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Chimp birth: first close-ups
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Octopus makes its own quicksand then vanishes inside
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World's deepest living fish
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Wild chimps take care before crossing the road
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Orangutan "speaks" by mimicking
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Four-finned robot swims like a cuttlefish
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Monkey befriends a deer
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Coconut crab hunts seabird
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Clever crow uses physics to get its food
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The sex lives of animals - and what they mean for humans
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Chimp filmed cleaning her dead son's teeth
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Sea "alien" spotted off the coast of Angola
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Plankton eating plastic caught on camera for the first time
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Cyborg insects with wings controlled by humans
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Robots inspired by animals
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Aftermath of a Japanese whale hunt
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Monkeys hold tourists to ransom
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Mysterious swarm of crabs filmed off the coast of Panama
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3D game lets you see through an animal's eyes
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Exhibitionist spiny anteater reveals bizarre penis
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Mirror test shows magpies aren't so bird-brained
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Hunting falcons rely on sailor's trick
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Rare possum reacts to imitation calls
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Crow uses sequence of three tools
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Zombie caterpillar controlled by voodoo wasps
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How to train a deadly komodo dragon
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Space geckos play in zero gravity
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First video of living giant deep-sea 'shrimp'
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Foxes seem to disguise themselves as pumas to avoid predators
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Water droplets pop like popcorn off geckos' skin
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Mice made to kill using mind control lasers
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Watch electric eels leap out of the water to shock attackers
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Filefish uses instant camouflage to vanish
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Robo-raven performs aerial acrobatics
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Ancient arachnid crawls back to life
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Finding an egg within an egg
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Giant triton vs crown of thorns starfish
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How a baby was trained to fear
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New ghostly deep-sea octopus filmed at record depth
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Dogs judge humans by how we treat others
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Why are so many Labradors fat?
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Humpback whales sing to woo females
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Robotic elephant trunk could hang with humans
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Badger seen burying a whole cow
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Why eye contact can help you bond with dogs
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Huddling penguins move like cars in traffic
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Walking shark discovered in Indonesia
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Do animals experience grief?
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Baby sloth reared by human and stuffed toy
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New monkey species spotted in Tibet
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World's biggest sponge is as big as a car
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This dolphin has learned to breathe through its mouth
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Dog brain responds to calls just like human brain
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How do army ants build bridges with no one in charge?
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Scientists have trained rats to drive tiny cars to collect food
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How do you solve a problem like feral pigs?
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Birds of prey spread fires deliberately
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Watch a praying mantis perform acrobatic jumps
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Young female monkeys use deer as 'outlet for sexual frustration'
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Male sand martin birds filmed having sex with a dead male
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Baby bird mimics a toxic caterpillar
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Cyborg stingray made of rat heart cells swims using light
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Giant octopus wears jellyfish cape
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Math reveals secrets of mammal urination
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Lobster krill fight off penguins
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Bird preserved in amber for 100 million years
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Sea creatures inspire wave power
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