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The surprising ways animals react to a total solar eclipse

When the moon hides the sun in a total solar eclipse, some animals seem to think that it is briefly nighttime, while others pace anxiously or even gaze up at the sky

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Solar Eclipse and elephants

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Poison frogs tap-dance to rouse prey and make them easier to catch

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Male cuttlefish burst through their ink clouds to impress females

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Male Andrea cuttlefish (Sepia andreana)
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Watch parrots use their beaks for a newly identified form of motion

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See what the world looks like through the eyes of different animals

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How wild primates adapt to living with disabilities

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2ENH3G9 The latest born West African manatee, left, meets visitors for the first time at Chimelong Ocean Kingdom in Zhuhai city, south China's Guangdong province, 19 August 2019. The latest-born West African manatee at Chimelong Ocean Kingdom, who is the first born female manatee in China, meet visitors for the first time two months after her birth in Zhuhai city, south China's Guangdong province, 19 August 2019. During the meeting, the manatee chooses her name as Feifei, and interact with present visitors. (Photo by Chen Jimin - Imaginechina/Sipa USA)

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Are there really freshwater manatees thriving deep within West Africa?

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Reindeer can chew their food and sleep at the same time

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Robot eel reveals how the strange fish swim so efficiently

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Anemones are first known animals to follow the sun like plants do

Snakelocks anemones are the first known “heliotropic” animals – their tentacles point towards the sun, tracking its movements like plants do

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Rats squeak with happiness when they are with another rat

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Flatworms can either regrow lost heads or reproduce sexually, not both

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Flatworm caught hunting and killing spider on its own web

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Roosters may be able to recognise themselves in a mirror

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