The Osa Peninsula is a wildlife treasure trove, a black sand and blue skies paradise with an abundance of exotic animals, insects and plant life.

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The problem will be worsened by global warming affecting the population balance of animal predators such as owls, snakes, birds and bats, animals that keep insects and rodents in check.

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Some dances imitate the calls and movements of animals or insects, others, like the sword and bow dances, are rituals, and still others are improvisational or purely entertainment.

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Newspapers have been replaced by foldable, paper-thin displays and small robots that mimic insects and other animals (spiders, in the case of the movie) are used by law enforcement agencies to explore hard-to-reach spaces and track down suspects.

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Theories abound that male self-sacrifice may be a logical extension of the practice employed by many animals, including insects and spiders, of the male bringing a gift of food to encourage the female to mate.

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It has been known for years that in a range of animals from insects to birds the males increase the quality and quantity of the sperm they ejaculate when those sperm are likely to find themselves in competition with sperm from another male.

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They concluded that such upwellings might indeed account for the catastrophic fish deaths, but that they would not explain the deaths of insects, reptiles, birds and mammals, since these animals breathe air rather than relying on dissolved oxygen.

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