Mother Nature does it better (ASMR edition)

Mother Nature does it better (ASMR edition)

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Nature's Most Wanted: Trunk and disorderly

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

Nature's Most Wanted: Fowl play with real-life angry birds

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

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