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For a brief moment I doubt what I have witnessed with my own eyes: a family pet regurgitating one of its own organs, and then resorbing it.

A wild dolphin is apparently teaching other members of her group to walk on their tails, a behaviour usually seen only after training in captivity. The tail-walking group lives along the south Australian coast near Adelaide. Scientists studying the group say tail-walk tuition has not been seen before, and suggest the habit may emerge as a form of "culture" among this group.

Magpies can recognise themselves in a mirror, scientists have found - the first time self-recognition has been observed in a non-mammal.

In the 1993 paper, Dr. Shafik explored the effect of wearing different types of underpants on the sexual activities of rats. He dressed 75 rats in a) 100% polyester, b) 50/50 polyester/cotton, c) 100% cotton and d) 100% wool underpants for one year.

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specially designed "crow-cams" fitted to the birds' tails have shed light on the creatures, recording some tool-use never seen before.

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A GIANT squid washed up dead on Tasmania's west coast is one of the biggest ever found, weighing in at 250 kilograms, with a cross-section as big as a truck tyre and longer than a station wagon.

Songbirds rehearse their melodies by singing in their sleep, a new study has found.

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Zoologists ... global action plan to save hundreds of species of frogs believed to be on the brink of extinction. "Something really terrifying is happening to the planet...We'd be very stupid if we did not pay very close attention to this."

Scientists in the eastern German city of Jena said Wednesday they have finally given up after three years of failed attempts to entice a sloth into budging as part of an experiment in animal movement.