Stuart Blackman

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Males throughout the animal kingdom tend to live shorter lives than females. © DeAgostini / Getty Images

Why do females often live longer than males?

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Feeling the heat

Workers help remove oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on a laughing gull at the Mississippi Wildlife Response Center in Gulfport, Mississippi, on West Ship Island in Mississippi on Saturday, July 3, 2010. (James Edward Bates/Biloxi Sun-Herald/MCT)
Oil on a bird's feathers leads to flightlessness © James Edward Bates / Biloxi Sun-Herald / MCT / Getty Images

Why is oil so bad for birds’ feathers?

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Why do animals hiccup?

WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES - 2013/06/15: View of the Rosalia Wind Farm near Oaksdale in the Palouse, Washington State, USA. (Photo by Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Does the noise from wind turbines affect wildlife?

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Do any snakes hunt in packs?

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Startle them young

The endearing wolf-spider. © James Gerholdt

Can any animals mate with two partners at once?

Cassiopea (upside-down jellyfish) is a genus of true jellyfish and the only members of the family Cassiopeidae. They are found in warmer coastal regions around the world, including shallow mangrove swamps, mudflats, canals, and turtle grass flats in Florida, and the Caribbean. The medusa usually lives upside-down on the bottom, which has earned them the common name. Where found, there may be numerous individuals with varying shades of white, blue, green and brown.

Brainless jellies need rest

South African Ostrich, Struthio camelus australis, walking through grassland.

Why do ostriches have two kneecaps?

Marine pollution, mainly made up of plastic bottles and polystyrene floating in Hinnavaru Harbour, Maldives, Indian Ocean.

Hundreds of marine Asian species have been hitching a ride on rafts of marine debris

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Why are giant pandas black and white?

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Do any non-human animals menstruate?

Northern gannet (Morus bassanus) plunge-diving for fish alongside Shetland pelagic trawler

How do diving gannets avoid breaking their necks?

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Why do bowhead whales have such large heads?