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Why are otters playful?
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Playful otters often wrestle, slide and play with their food. Learn how otters are playful and use fun and games as ways to improve their survival tactics.
Can you live safely among wolves?
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Humans living with wolves can stay safe by respecting wolf territory. Learn how some experts are living with wolves to study and save these animals.
Milk Snake: Harmless Yet Colored for Danger
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Often confused with the venomous coral snake, which advertises its toxicity through bright bands of color, the milk snake is harmless to humans.
Meet 5 Lazarus Species, Animals Once Presumed Extinct, But Alive and Well
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Sometimes organisms, thought to be long gone from the world, rise from extinction like Lazarus from the dead, though it is a rare occurrence.
The Biggest Crab in the World, Plus 8 Enormous Contenders
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Known for their long legs, pincers and hard shells, most crustaceans are omnivorous scavengers, although some are predators or vegetarians. Either way, a steady diet can assist certain crab species in growing to incredible sizes.
The Hippopotamus Is Social in Water, Solitary on Land
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Did you know the word "hippopotamus" comes from the ancient Greek for "river horse"? But don't let that fool you; this big, lumbering mammal is anything but a horse. In fact, it's one of the most powerful animals living in Sub-Saharan Africa today.
Iterative Evolution: Did the Aldabra Rail Evolve Twice?
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The flightless Aldabra rail only lives on the Aldabra Atoll in Madagascar. But this example of iterative evolution descended from birds that soar.
Spinosaurus Was a Good Floater but Lousy Swimmer
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The villainous dinosaur from 'Jurassic Park' probably never had an affinity for water.
Fisher Cats: Tough Guys of the Weasel World
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HowStuffWorks looks at the world of the mysterious fisher cat, which actually isn't a cat at all but rather a tough member of the weasel family.
How Do Eels Reproduce?
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It's a slippery proposition, to be sure, but bees do it, birds do it and you can bet that eels do it too. The question is, how?