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Marie Claire Chelini

Evolutionary Biology

Duke University

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Why did blue whales get so big when their prey is teeny tiny?

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When the food source is abundant, animals with bigger mouths can consume more calories.

Stressed out crabs don't camouflage very well

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The noise from passing ships stresses out crabs and makes them easy prey

Cleaner fish learn how to steal a little mucus snack by watching adults

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Fish preferred to cheat a bit when given the choice

Swamp sparrows can guess each other's ages from the sounds of their song

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Researchers hand raised a flock of swamp sparrows, and used music playback experiments to see how wild males responded to different songs