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Inhuman Doctors: Zoopharmacognosy and Self Medicating Animals

Many major cultures around the globe have developed some form of medical science. The Indians have Ayurveda, the Chinese have TCM and of course there is Western medicine. What these fields have in common is that they are derived from the process of observing Read More...
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Possessed ants and other animals - What has gotten into them?

What do you make of ants that climb to the top of leaves and stay there, or grip onto the tip of leaves with their mandibles and hang there until they die? These are behaviours atypical of them - are they possessed? Have they gone mad? Take a look at Read More...
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