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How much booze does it take to intoxicate an elephant?The answer isn't as much as you might expect, because not all guts are created equal when it comes to metabolising alcohol.This explains why an elephant might be considered a lightweight and your donkey got into a fight last w ...  Show more

Forget feathered friends — these are our feathered foes.They can wield knives, get involved in the world of organised crime and drug dealing, and even shut down the Large Hadron Collider.But the most pressing question is, why did the duck cross the road at speeds so high local la ...  Show more

Guest presented by Liz Bonnin.We all instinctively know that sleep is incredibly important but science doesn’t actually have a satisfying answer for why we need to sleep. There are multiple theories, but now, new research from Imperial College London has suggested that the leadin ...  Show more

“I’m bored!” We can all relate to the uncomfortable - and at times unbearable - feeling of boredom. But what is it? Why does it happen? And could this frustrating, thumb-twiddling experience actually serve some evolutionary purpose?

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Mathematics and our ability to describe the world in terms of number, shape and measurement may feel like a uniquely human ability. But is it really? Listener Mamadu from Sierra Leone wants to know: can animals count too? CrowdScience presenter Marnie Chesterton goes on a hun ...

Zoos in the modern world: Laurie Taylor talks to David Grazian, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania and author of 'American Zoo: A Sociological Safari'. Zoos blur the boundaries between culture and nature; animals and humans and separate civilisatio ...  Show more