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 properties.
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News
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 behavior among gay and bisexual men, and not by vaccination, according to a new analysis published on Thursday in the journal Cell ...
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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 in water.
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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 when conditions are ripe.
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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.