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Bumblebees show each other how to solve complex puzzles

Puzzles that bumblebees cannot solve on their own can be cracked with help from another bee, adding to research on the transmission of culture among insects

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Male cockatoos make customised drumsticks for their mating displays

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Zebrafish seem to be able to count when they are just four days old

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Bumblebees can teach each other how to open a puzzle box

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Goffin's cockatoo using tools

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Cockatoos understand when a job requires a toolkit

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Two rooks in an aviary

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Cambridge lab for clever birds saved from closure by public donations

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African pouched rats are being trained to locate survivors trapped under debris and could be deployed at real-world disaster sites as early as next year.

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Backpack-wearing rats could start search-and-rescue missions next year

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Why has a court decided not to grant Happy the elephant personhood?

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The grand plan to create a periodic table of all animal intelligence

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Crows may owe their intelligence to an abundance of certain neurons

Corvids such as rooks and crows seem to have a unusually high number of interneurons, brain cells involved in processing information

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Bats can remember sounds they haven't heard for more than 4 years

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Stingrays and zebra mbuna fish know how to add and subtract

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Octopus brains may have become complex the same way human brains did

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The Parrot in the Mirror review: Why humans evolved to be like birds

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