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In the wild, great apes spend their lives solving problems just to survive. In a zoo, the challenge is keeping those sharp minds and busy hands engaged. This is why behavioral enrichment in zoos is so important: Just like humans, animals need more than a safe enclosure; they need interesting...
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A drone delivery for Malu the Orangutan
At Queen Mary University of London, Dr. Alice Bridges and entomologist Dr. Samuel Ramsey, aka Dr. Sammy, watch hungry bumblebees in a chamber with two options: head straight for food or stop to play with wooden balls. Many chose to play. “Bees are pretty reward-driven animals,” Dr. Bridges explains in...
Where does your food go when you eat it? And what does a five-meter (around 16.4-foot) journey from your mouth to the end of your small intestine look like from the inside? During a BBC Four broadcast called Guts: The Strange and Mysterious World of the Human Stomach, presenter Michael...
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Follow a pill camera through the digestive system
Earth’s crust is the layer we know best, yet it takes up just 1.4% of our planet’s total volume. So, what actually happens within the other 98.6% of this oblate spheroid we call home? And what is bridgmanite? Who are Tuzo and Jason? In this episode of Crash Course Geology,...
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Earth’s Blobby Mystery: The crust, mantle, cores, and what’s hidden in them
Doodles are often made with pens and lines. What if they’re made with washes of color? In this quiet art tutorial, Annecy, France-based painter Nan shares how she “doodles” with one color, “building soft layers little by little.” In the caption, she writes: “…and you don’t need any special skills...
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A calming watercolor doodle tutorial, painted one layer at a time
