Animal behaviour

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• Scorpion found in London home of BBC 6 Music presenter Ben Watt

  21 Oct 2014: Daughter of musician finds European yellow-tailed scorpion in bedroom, believed by London Zoo to have travelled in suitcase

• Venomous spider found in Waitrose shopping 'beautiful but aggressive'

  20 Oct 2014: While most spiders scurry away when confronted, the Brazilian wandering spider stands its ground, says invertebrate expert Dave Clarke

• First act of sexual intercourse ‘was done sideways, square-dance style’

  19 Oct 2014: Fossils of 380m-year-old lake-dwelling placoderms point to bony, L-shaped male organ and female ‘cheese-grater’ genitals, scientists say

• Caw vs. Kraa: meaning in the calls of crows and ravens

  18 Oct 2014: GrrlScientist: This short video, by the Cornell Lab of O, discusses the differences between and potential meanings of the sounds made by crows and ravens.

• Experience: I was attacked by a dolphin

  17 Oct 2014: Valerie Ryan: ‘I knew I had to get out of the water, but couldn’t because of my injuries. I felt pure terror’

• Amazing animal migrations

  13 Oct 2014: As the year turns, millions of birds and animals cross oceans and continents in search of food. But climate change may have unpredictable consequences for what is a healthy ecosystem

• Fantastic journey: why animals are driven to migrate

  13 Oct 2014: As the seasons turn, millions of birds and animals cross oceans and continents but climate change might have unpredictable consequences for this healthy ecosystem

• Inventions inspired by nature

  Interactive, 10 Oct 2014:

  From cycle helmets to self-cleaning paint, explore the inventions that have plagiarised the natural world

• Can you spot nature's masters of disguise?

  9 Oct 2014: Whether they are the hunter or the hunted, these camouflage animals show nature’s incredible ability to blend in with its surroundings

• Should intelligent primates be entitled to human rights?

  Poll, 8 Oct 2014:

  A US court is to rule today on whether chimpanzees should be entitled to the protection of human rights laws

• Animal behaviour: the homesick gorilla and the dog that fell out of the sky

  4 Oct 2014: Laurel Braitman finds out what violent parrots and obsessive hamsters tell us about ourselves

• From the archive, 4 October 1971: Spiders on LSD take a tangled trip

  4 Oct 2014: Originally published in the Guardian on 4 October 1971: Drugs experiment makes stoned spiders spin webs which are both ugly and inefficient at catching flies

• Walrus mass on Alaska beach - in pictures

  1 Oct 2014: Pacific walrus unable to find sea ice on which to rest in Arctic waters are coming ashore in record numbers on a beach in north-west Alaska

• Engineers mimic the amazing camouflage abilities of the octopus

  30 Sep 2014: Beyond military motives to copy animal hiding techniques, scientists foresee fabrics, cars and walls that change colour

• Edinburgh zoo says giant panda Tian Tian is no longer pregnant

  22 Sep 2014: Hopes for first UK birth of giant panda dashed after zoo says Tian Tian may have suffered from ‘late reabsorption of the foetus’

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