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Adelie penguins on sea ice off the Antarctic Peninsula Ashley Cooper pics/Alamy Fumes of ammonia emerging from piles of droppings in Antarctica’s crowded penguin colonies lend a hand spice up the formation of clouds, that have a cooling impact by means of reflecting daylight clear of the skin. “This demonstrates a …

A male white-faced capuchin monkey wearing a child howler monkey Brendan Barrett/Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior Capuchin monkeys on a far flung Panamanian island are abducting young children from howler monkey households, in a first-of-its-kind pattern. The wild inhabitants of white-faced capuchins (Cebus capucinus imitator) residing on Jicarón Island …