Wild Things: Life as We Know It
Dinosaur gangs, psychedelic fish and long-distance elephant calls
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How Elephants Call Long-Distance
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Young Dinosaurs Joined Gangs
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Psychedelic Fish On Groovy Trip
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Where The Camels Roamed
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Observed
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Two's Company: Antbirds live in pairs. They defend their territories from other antbirds by singing complex duets to signal their combined strength.
Three's Trouble: But when an unattached female enters a pair's territory, you can forget about such harmony, a study from the University of Oxford says. Once the male starts warbling, his partner launches into a song that interferes with his—a clear attempt, the researchers say, to ruin any overture to the unattached female.