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Topic: mammals

A picture taken on December 6, 2016 shows chickens at a henhouse near Loon-Plage. France raised its risk level for avian flu to "high" after new cases of the "highly pathogenic" H5N8 strain of the virus were detected (PHILIPPE HUGUEN/AFP/Getty Images)

New bird flu outbreak spreads to mammals

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
A pelican suspected to have died from H5N1 avian influenza is seen on a beach in Lima, on December 1, 2022. (ERNESTO BENAVIDES/AFP via Getty Images)

Bird flu is spreading. Don't freak out

Troy Farah
Melia Kreiling, James Corden and Caroline Long in "Mammals" (Rory Mulvey/Prime Video)

Is "Mammals" really about monogamy?

Nell Beram
A rat eats on the platform at the Herald Square subway station in New York City (Gary Hershorn/Getty Images)

The world is full of "outcast rats"

Pamela Appea
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In this April 2016 photo provided by the Wildlife Conservation Society, a ring-tailed lemur and her baby sit on a tree branch at the Bronx Zoo in the Bronx borough of New York. (Wildlife Conservation Society/Julie Larsen Maher via AP) (AP)

Planting trees can save lemurs

Andrea L. Baden - The Conversation
(AP Photo/Lasanthi Benedict)

Why are whales big, but not bigger?

Matthew Savoca, Jeremy Goldbogen, Nicholas Pyenson - The Conversation
This undated photo provided by the National Park Service shows a mountain lion, known as P-45. (National Park Service via AP) (AP)

nocturnal animals evolution

Kaitlyn Gaynor - The Conversation
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-360898p1.html'>Tory Kallman</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Nearly 3 million whales killed

Joanna Rothkopf
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(Virgin Mary De Agostini/A. De Gregorio/Getty Images)

Daniel Engber - Popular Science
(Flickr/VSmithUK)

Joseph Stromberg - Smithsonian.com
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