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Like a gardener surveying his veggie patch, Alan Wallish tells me the cabbages are running amok again: “They’ve become so dense. We really need a cyclone to come through and break them up so new ...

For killer whales on the hunt for herring, two is better than one. A study published last week in the journal Current Biology found that the animals hunt in pairs and divide tasks with precision, ...