5 unexpected animal behaviors we learned about in 2025

Mongabay
Jan 2, 2026, 12:30 pm271 ptsTop
Every year, researchers and people out in nature capture some aspect of animal behavior that’s unusual or unexpected in some way, changing how we understand the natural world. Here are five such examples that Mongabay reported on in 2025: Massive fish aggregation seen climbing waterfalls in Brazil For the…

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