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Whales of the same species sing in different dialects, depending on where they’re from, the same way humans who speak the same language have different accents that identify where they live. Ants are even more amazing: They not only farm their own food, their bodies produce pesticides to protect their crops.

The journal BioScience reports that blue whales from Pacific Northwest sound different than blue whales in the western Pacific Ocean, and both of these sound different from blue whales living off Antarctica. They all sound different than the blue whales living near Chile.
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Scientists used to think that coyotes avoided human populations, but they now know that they are common in suburbia and even in cities as big as Manhattan, where a coyote was recently found to be living in Central Park. Also common are their elusive relatives, the coydogs, which are an incredibly intelligent mixed breed created by coyotes mating with stray dogs.
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Scientists now know that we share 97% of our DNA with chimpanzees, which is positive proof of evolution. Human and chimpanzee Y chromosomes went their separate ways approximately 6 million years ago. We recently wrote about bee and bird communication. Now it turns out that chimps have a language as well, which they use mainly to share food information, and scientists have now deciphered it.
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