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via languagehat. I may have posted this before, but it’s good enough to do twice.

‘Using a delicate mixture of intimidation and retribution, they “persuade” other birds to accept their eggs and raise their chicks.’

‘A new study by Hoso et al.1 demonstrates that snail-eating pareatine snakes have more teeth on their right jaws than on the left and attribute this difference to the prevalence of dextrally coiled (right-handed) shells in snails.’ via Circus of the Spineless