Behavior
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Science
Orangutan, Heal Thyself
For the first time, scientists observed a primate in the wild treating a wound with a plant that has medicinal…
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Food
Vaccines Didn’t Turn Back Mpox, Study Finds. People Did.
The News The 2022 outbreak of mpox, previously known as monkeypox, was curbed in large part by drastic changes in…
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Science
Polly Wants a Cracker, but She Wants to Make It Easier to Chew
Goffin’s cockatoos, long known as adept tool users, are the first parrots found to alter their food by dipping it…
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Science
This Elephant Taught Herself to Peel Bananas
An elephant at the Berlin Zoo can use her trunk to peel bananas, an unusual behavior she engages in only…
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Science
No, Female Mice Are Not More Erratic
A new study challenges a century-old assumption used to exclude female mice from scientific research because of their hormonal cycles.