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Badger Denies Involvement in Missing Garden Gnome
The gnome went from the rockery on Tuesday night. The badger was in the garden on Tuesday night. The badger describes this as a coincidence of a very ordinary kind.
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Cows Have Best Friends
Cows build preferred relationships, groom the herd-mates who groomed them, and calves raised with a companion do better at learning.
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Butterflies Taste With Their Feet
A butterfly landing on a leaf is not resting — it is drumming the surface with its front legs to find out what the leaf is, because it has taste receptors in its feet.
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Snail Completes Six-Metre Crossing, Declines to Comment
Four days, one flagstone path, sixteen hours under a leaf — and at the finish the snail had nothing to say to the assembled woodlice.
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Heron Issues Statement Regarding the Six Hours
The bird stood in eleven centimetres of water from dawn until early afternoon and wishes to make clear that this was, at all times, work.
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Squirrel Denies Staging Fake Burials
He digs the hole, pats down the soil with great ceremony, and walks away with the nut still in his mouth.
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Sea Otter Announces Recall of Entire Pebble Collection
Four stones, three chipped, and one otter with extremely firm opinions about what should and should not be used to open a clam.
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Walter the Library Cat Has His Own System
Walter has lived in the Hartwell Memorial Library for nine years and has, in that time, developed strong opinions about returns.
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The Real Nemo's Dad Would Have Become His Mom
Every clownfish starts adult life as a male, and when the female who rules an anemone disappears, her partner turns into a female and takes her place, so in a real reef Marlin would have become Nemo's mum.
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Sharks Are Older Than Trees
Shark-like scales go back about 450 million years. The oldest known forest grew about 385 million years ago.