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[Trivia Question]

Machine learning saving kilowatt-hours

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7765259/

[Fact Off]

Cichlid fish dream houses (for conservation) 

https://www.mpg.de/14854482/3d-printing-cichlids

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/if-fish-could-build-its-own-home-what-would-it-look-like-180976172/

Devil’s garden - lemon ant & rainforest tree symbiosis  

https://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/september28/devil-092805.html

https://www.nature.com/articles/437495a

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/606022?journalCode=an

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2124481/

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2459556

[Ask the Science Couch]

Estimate of how many animals there are

​​https://www.nationalgeographic.com/newsletters/animals/article/how-many-species-have-not-found-december-26

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1001127

https://academic.oup.com/sysbio/article/61/5/871/1734723

Animals that are parasites 

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2016.0324

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/animals-evolution-parasites-ed-yong

https://www.audubon.org/news/the-brilliant-ways-parasitic-birds-terrorize-their-victims

Constructing homes (natural & artificial)

https://www.naturepl.com/pictures/pdfs/NPL_Architecture.pdf

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34269510/  

[Butt One More Thing]

Snail shell poop + African swine fever virus

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35151121/

https://www.carnegiemnh.org/science/mollusks/dietbehavior.html