Animals

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How Bermuda Is Scrambling to Save Its National Bird

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How a Toxic Battle Over Wolves in Europe Became a Productive Conversation

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This Year’s Cicadas Will Be Loud and Horny

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Why Is the Egg Industry Still Killing 7 Billion Day-Old Male Chicks a Year?

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The True Story of the Cocaine Bear

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How Can India Eradicate a Dangerous Disease in Cows Without Culling Sick Animals?

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Why That Sheep With the Overgrown Wool Is “a Freak of Our Making”

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Texans Caught in the Blackout Are Rescuing Thousands of Sea Turtles From the Cold

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The Scientists Who Became Allergic to Their Own Work

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