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In 2018, Scientists Recorded Orcas Mimicking Human Language For The First Time In HistoryKiller whale in water.

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In 2018, Scientists Recorded Orcas Mimicking Human Language For The First Time In HistoryKiller whale in water.
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In 2018, Scientists Recorded Orcas Mimicking Human Language For The First Time In History

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Elephants Use All Kinds Of Gestures To Communicate – They Just Want ApplesElephant stands in front of an experimenter with one empty black tray and one tray of apples.

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Elephants Use All Kinds Of Gestures To Communicate – They Just Want ApplesElephant stands in front of an experimenter with one empty black tray and one tray of apples.
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Elephants Use All Kinds Of Gestures To Communicate – They Just Want Apples

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Are These 2 African Gray Parrots The Only Non-Human Animals To Ever Ask A Question?An African grey parrot.

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Are These 2 African Gray Parrots The Only Non-Human Animals To Ever Ask A Question?An African grey parrot.
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Are These 2 African Gray Parrots The Only Non-Human Animals To Ever Ask A Question?

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Cuttlefish Communicate With Arm Waving And Can Sense The Ripples With Their BodiesReef cuttlefish in the Andaman Sea, Thailand

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Cuttlefish Communicate With Arm Waving And Can Sense The Ripples With Their BodiesReef cuttlefish in the Andaman Sea, Thailand
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Cuttlefish Communicate With Arm Waving And Can Sense The Ripples With Their Bodies

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Have Scientists Solved Decades-Long Mystery Involving A Submarine And A Creepy Quacking Sound?A Island beach in the South Fiji Basin.

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Have Scientists Solved Decades-Long Mystery Involving A Submarine And A Creepy Quacking Sound?A Island beach in the South Fiji Basin.
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Have Scientists Solved Decades-Long Mystery Involving A Submarine And A Creepy Quacking Sound?

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Marmosets Call Each Other Names, Joining Elite List Of AnimalsTwo marmosets with white fluffy heads sit next to each other looking off to the left.

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Marmosets Call Each Other Names, Joining Elite List Of AnimalsTwo marmosets with white fluffy heads sit next to each other looking off to the left.
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Marmosets Call Each Other Names, Joining Elite List Of Animals

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Barbershop Elephants: First-Ever “Let’s Go” Recordings Reveal Incredible Harmoniesthree elephants standing in a row

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Barbershop Elephants: First-Ever “Let’s Go” Recordings Reveal Incredible Harmoniesthree elephants standing in a row
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Barbershop Elephants: First-Ever “Let’s Go” Recordings Reveal Incredible Harmonies

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African Elephants Call Each Other By "Names", Just Like Humans Dotwo elephants facing each other with their trunks intertwined

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African Elephants Call Each Other By "Names", Just Like Humans Dotwo elephants facing each other with their trunks intertwined
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African Elephants Call Each Other By "Names", Just Like Humans Do

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Pooping, Flapping Ears, And Rumbling: The Weird Ways Elephants Get Their Friends' AttentionTwo elephants next to each other one turned to the other with their trunk raised, the other with her ears outspread.

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Pooping, Flapping Ears, And Rumbling: The Weird Ways Elephants Get Their Friends' AttentionTwo elephants next to each other one turned to the other with their trunk raised, the other with her ears outspread.
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Pooping, Flapping Ears, And Rumbling: The Weird Ways Elephants Get Their Friends' Attention

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Sperm Whale “Phonetic Alphabet” Surprisingly Similar In Structure To Human LanguageThree sperm whales swim just under the surface of the water

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Sperm Whale “Phonetic Alphabet” Surprisingly Similar In Structure To Human LanguageThree sperm whales swim just under the surface of the water
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Sperm Whale “Phonetic Alphabet” Surprisingly Similar In Structure To Human Language

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How Do Animals Know When It’s Their Turn To Communicate?Two red and white betta fish (siamese fighting fish) swimming, isolated on a black background

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How Do Animals Know When It’s Their Turn To Communicate?Two red and white betta fish (siamese fighting fish) swimming, isolated on a black background
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How Do Animals Know When It’s Their Turn To Communicate?

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Scientists Searching For Extraterrestrial Life Have First "Contact Call" – With A WhaleA humpback whale underwater.

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Scientists Searching For Extraterrestrial Life Have First "Contact Call" – With A WhaleA humpback whale underwater.
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Scientists Searching For Extraterrestrial Life Have First "Contact Call" – With A Whale

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Dolphin Recorded Speaking "Porpoise" In Incredible World FirstCommon dolphin leaping over the waves

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Dolphin Recorded Speaking "Porpoise" In Incredible World FirstCommon dolphin leaping over the waves
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Dolphin Recorded Speaking "Porpoise" In Incredible World First

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African Elephants May Use Names For Each Other, A First Outside Of Humansthree African elephants walking through grassland against an orange sky

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African Elephants May Use Names For Each Other, A First Outside Of Humansthree African elephants walking through grassland against an orange sky
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African Elephants May Use Names For Each Other, A First Outside Of Humans

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The Sound Of Fish “Singing” Underwater Has Been Turned Into A Christmas Songarticle image

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The Sound Of Fish “Singing” Underwater Has Been Turned Into A Christmas Songarticle image
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The Sound Of Fish “Singing” Underwater Has Been Turned Into A Christmas Song

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