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Moving forward, Lin plans to continue studying this circuit to uncover other neuronal populations and brain regions that may ...

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For the first time, researchers have systematically documented that a wild animal uses a plant to treat injuries. Evolutionary biologists from the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior in Constance ...

Dupont's Lark, which is found in steppe in Spain and North Africa, is a socially monogamous and globally Vulnerable ...

The average pollen transfer efficiency (percentage of removed pollen grains deposited on conspecific stigmas) of milkweeds is greater than 10 percent while more typical animal-pollinated flowers with ...

it was observed that a sense of injustice when being rewarded less than another conspecific performing the same task can lead to protest behaviour that involves anger and rejection of the unjust ...

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