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An 11-year-old cockatoo named Ellie uses Facebook Messenger to video communicants with a fellow parrot. Photos by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University Parrots, renowned for their impressive intelligence and charming vocal mimicry, have gained popularity as pets in recent decades. Those same traits that make the birds fascinating...

Studies of melon-based communication have so far been limited to belugas in captivity. The animals may behave differently in the wild. DepositPhotos Animals have evolved all sorts of weird and wonderful methods of communication—everything from mantis shrimp bouncing pulses of polarized light to one another to birds-of-paradise...

The S73-7 Infra-Red Calibration Balloon was already lost once before since it first launched in 1974. NASA/JSC The US Space Force located a tiny experimental satellite after it spent two-and-a–half decades missing in orbit. Hopefully, they’ll be able to keep an eye on it for good—unlike the last time. The S73-7 Infra-Red...

How the great ape first learned to use the plant is still unclear. Deposit Photos Observers have documented multiple animal species using plants for self-medicinal purposes, such as great apes eating plants that treat parasitic infections or rubbing vegetation on sore muscles. But a wild orangutan recently displayed something...

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