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Louise Gentle

Louise Gentle

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Do birds have accents? The fascinating regional differences in birdsong

Birds have dialects too.

29.04.2026 20

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Louise Gentle

Children’s books feature tidy nuclear families – but the animal kingdom tells a different story

Storybooks and films may have given you the wrong idea about what family looks like in the animal kingdom.

05.11.2025 10

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Louise Gentle

Curious kids: do owls have bogies?

And other questions about animal snot answered.

11.09.2025 10

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Louise Gentle

Alpha males are surprisingly rare among primates – new research

In most primates one sex isn’t dominant over the other.

16.07.2025 10

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Louise Gentle