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Tens of thousands of starlings swirled over the reed beds at dusk in shapes so perfect that onlookers demanded to know who was in charge, and the starlings insist nobody is.
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Offered a shortcut round a tuft of grass by a helpful ant, a dung beetle pushing a ball twice its size climbed on top, looked at the night sky and carried on in a perfectly straight line.
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After a week of round-the-clock work, a small pufferfish has completed a perfectly symmetrical sand circle the width of a double bed and has refused all requests for an interview.
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A herd of ibex was seen standing on a near-vertical stone dam high in the mountains on Thursday, licking the wall, and a spokesgoat has asked everyone to calm down.
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For roughly forty seconds on Tuesday afternoon, the mob's lookout post was occupied by a meerkat whose eyes were closed, and the mob would like to know why.
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The cap was round, clean and undeniably blue, and after four minutes of silent inspection the bowerbird carried it back out of the garden and dropped it by the shed.
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One roomy whelk shell turned up at low tide, and by the afternoon eleven hermit crabs had lined up by size and moved house in under a minute.
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The stream was three metres wide on Monday evening; by Tuesday morning it was a pond, the footpath was underwater, and nobody had been consulted.
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The frogs of Millbrook Pond have called off tonight's chorus, and one small tree frog has flatly refused to go along with it.
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The crossing was built out of the workforce itself, opened to traffic before it was finished, and will be dismantled by walking away.