Humans have feared snakes since time immemorial, but scientists now know that even these cold-blooded arch predators have maternal instincts.
As the most sociable of all the big cats, lions live in the largest groups – and all that cooperation and co-dependency implies far-reaching cognitive depths.
It’s widely known elephants use a range of communicative trumpets, purrs and rumbles, but they also use sounds we can’t even hear – and now we know what they mean.
As apex predators, tigers are often considered solitary and ruthless, but in social groups they purposely leave themselves vulnerable to build trust.
Chimpanzees are our closest living relatives, yet while they care for the defenceless, human activities are pushing them to extinction.
It took humans hundreds of years to navigate the world’s oceans – but these exceptional animals can do so naturally and with complete precision.
Fascination with a species so similar to our own has led to thousands of macaques being poached from the wild – now it’s up to us to help them.
Observations of macaque communities has revealed tool use on a previously unimagined scale as well as a surprising new utility for human hair.
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