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Magpies distinguished between spouses and repeatedly defecated only on the disliked husband’s car, even after he changed vehicles.
TEDx TalksCrows, smarter than you think | John Marzluff | TEDxRainier
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In some Yellowstone areas, tree height quintupled in just six years after wolves returned.
Sustainable HumanHow Wolves Change Rivers
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Each of an octopus’s eight arms has enough neural autonomy to function as if it thinks for itself.
TED-EdWhy the octopus brain is so extraordinary - Cláudio L. Guerra
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Redistribute every continent and island into the deepest ocean basins, and Earth would still hold an ocean about two miles deep.
RealLifeLoreThe Ocean is Way Deeper Than You Think
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When an understory Douglas fir is shaded, a birch tree can send it about 10 percent of its carbon.
TEDx TalksNature's internet: how trees talk to each other in a healthy forest | Suzanne Simard | TEDxSeattle
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Some army-ant hunting columns stretch 100 meters and kill as many as 500,000 animals in a single day.
Kurzgesagt – In a NutshellThe World War of the Ants – The Army Ant
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The Gulf Stream carries heat equivalent to one million nuclear power plants, keeping Europe five to ten degrees warmer.
Kurzgesagt – In a NutshellThe Gulf Stream Explained
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Mother trees recognize kin and send more carbon to related seedlings, especially when the mother tree is injured.
TEDx TalksNature's internet: how trees talk to each other in a healthy forest | Suzanne Simard | TEDxSeattle

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