Science Quiz: Kindness in the animal kingdom

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Name these ants famed for their size, their termite-feeding behaviour, and for carrying injured mates back from termite nests.

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Individuals of this nocturnal flying mammal sometimes return from a night hunt and share a blood meal by mouth with a roost-mate that’s failed to feed. Name this mammal, which “donates” food in this way to protect its fellow members and build lasting social bonds?

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Which small desert-dwelling carnivore lives in family groups on the African savannah, where some stand upright on watch and others mind the pups underground while other relatives forage Name this animal? Members of these groups also rotate the roles so everyone can also eat.

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Name the highly social marine mammals that travel in pods and communicate with whistles and clicks, sometimes even addressing individuals by unique signature calls. Members of this species have also been seen supporting an injured companion at the surface with their bodies so it can breathe between waves?

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On the coldest Antarctic nights, adult members of this bird gather with chicks in big crèches while the grown-ups take turns to move from the windy edge to the warmer center. Name this species, which also uses organised huddling to help many young survive before the parents return from the sea.

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Some huge ocean migrants with long, white-edged flippers have been filmed charging toward hunting orcas and breaking up attacks on seal or gray whale calves. Which particular singing species intervenes the most often in this way, even when the threatened baby isn’t its own?