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Cows Have Best Friends
Cows build preferred relationships, groom the herd-mates who groomed them, and calves raised with a companion do better at learning.
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Bramblewait
(n.) The pause with your hand already in the hedge, spent deciding that the blackberry you can reach is not the one you deserve.
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Snail Completes Six-Metre Crossing, Declines to Comment
Four days, one flagstone path, sixteen hours under a leaf — and at the finish the snail had nothing to say to the assembled woodlice.
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There Is No Such Thing as a Raw Cashew
The bag says raw, the shop says raw, and it is not raw — because the shell it came out of holds an oil that irritates skin much like poison ivy does.
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That Fresh Rain Smell? You're Actually Sniffing Bacteria
The earthy smell of rain has a name, petrichor, and a key ingredient is geosmin, made by soil bacteria, which the human nose can detect at about one hundred parts per trillion.
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Polar Bears Are Not Actually White — They're Transparent
Polar bear fur has no white pigment at all: the guard hairs are transparent and hollow, the white comes from scattered light, and the skin underneath is black.