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Weird species facts from New Scientist- Zoologger: The bird that cares for its rival's chicks February 23, 2012New Zealand's iconic pūkekos often allow other females to lay eggs in their nests, and care for the resulting young. What on earth for?
- Zoologger: Itsy bitsy teeny weeny chameleons February 15, 2012They've got independently rotating eyes, a curiously curly tail, and strangely depressing names. Meet some of the world's tiniest – and cutest – chameleons
- Zoologger: Don't bite - how the zebra got its stripes February 9, 2012An enigma that puzzled Darwin may have been solved – experiments suggest that zebras have stripes to fend off biting insects
- Zoologger: The only males with more brain than females February 2, 2012In one Icelandic lake, male three-spined sticklebacks have much larger brains than females – no other species shows such a big difference between the sexes
- Zoologger: How a blurry-eyed spider pounces on target January 26, 2012The Adanson's house jumper is the first animal found using out-of-focus vision to judge the distance to its victims
- Zoologger: Gecko's amputated tail has life of its own January 19, 2012Faced with a predator, the leopard gecko can jettison its tail – we explain how it keeps moving without a body
- Zoologger: Unique life form is half plant, half animal January 13, 2012A newly discovered single-celled organism isn't an animal, isn't a plant, and isn't even a neat hybrid of the two
- Zoologger: Transgender fish perform reverse sex flip January 6, 2012Boys will be boys… or girls, if it's convenient. From female to male and back again, gender bending means dwarf hawkfish can find a mate in any situation
- 2011 review: The year in Zoologger's extreme beasts December 22, 2011Zoologger is our weekly column highlighting extraordinary animals – and occasionally other organisms – from around the world. Here's our top 10
- Zoologger: My brain's so big it spills into my legs December 14, 2011Little spiders have a big problem – their brains are so big they have literally spilled out of their body cavities and into their legs
- Zoologger: To kill a mockingbird? No, parasitise it December 7, 2011Cowbirds lay their eggs in other birds' nests and often kill their young, so why do mockingbirds let them get away with it?
- Zoologger: Chill out with the world's coldest insect December 1, 2011While cold-shy mammals flee north, the larvae of the Antarctic midge stick it out through the depths of the polar winter
- Zoologger: 'Werewolf birds' hook up by the full moon November 25, 2011Barau's petrel is one of a handful of tropical birds that navigates using the full moon as a kind of Bat-Signal to guide them to their love nests
- Zoologger: Cannibal shrimp shows its romantic side November 17, 2011These small shrimps are no wimps: cannibalistic and willing to fight till death do them part – but only after dark
- Zoologger: The only cross-dressing bird of prey November 9, 2011Some male marsh harriers spend their adult lives mimicking females, apparently to avoid being attacked by other males
- Zoologger: The biggest spider web in the world November 3, 2011A spider less than 2 centimetres long builds webs that span rivers
- Zoologger: Slime killer hagfish feasts in rotten flesh October 27, 2011Despite not having any jaws, hagfish hunt fish, deter predators with slime, and eat rotting corpses from the inside out
- Zoologger: Female monkeys indulge in synchronised sex October 20, 2011In a bid to mate with as many males as possible, female Assamese macaques coordinate when they're willing to have sex
- Zoologger: The toad that's part clone, part love child October 13, 2011Is it a clone, or the result of an amphibian liaison? The Batura toad is both at once
- Zoologger: The first reptile with a true placenta October 6, 2011One African lizard has embryos that implant themselves into the wall of its womb – just as they do in mammals
- Zoologger: The bird that cares for its rival's chicks February 23, 2012
