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Do animals who eat creatures that camouflage themselves as things in nature accidentally eat the things that their prey camouflage themselves as?

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Why did animals like the octopus evolve to be so intelligent? If it's so useful, surely more animals would be as smart, and if not, why did it get so smart in the first place?

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People with synesthesia often report seeing colours that "don't exist". Do people who have synesthesia and are also colourblind ever "see" the colours they are unable to actually see?

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Full blood Australian Aboriginals are extinct. So who has the highest known amount of Aboriginal blood, or the least "foreign blood"?

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Do the more emotionally intelligent animals such as dogs and elephants experience more abstract emotions that aren't a direct immediate response to stimuli, such as anxiety or paranoia?

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Culturally speaking, why is it that halfcast children in the USA were historically shunned from society as negroes, but in Australia, while still shunned, they were sent to white homes to be raised as whites?

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Do animals who eat creatures that camouflage themselves as things in nature accidentally eat the things that their prey camouflage themselves as?	1
Why did animals like the octopus evolve to be so intelligent? If it's so useful, surely more animals would be as smart, and if not, why did it get so smart in the first place?	1
People with synesthesia often report seeing colours that "don't exist". Do people who have synesthesia and are also colourblind ever "see" the colours they are unable to actually see?	1
Full blood Australian Aboriginals are extinct. So who has the highest known amount of Aboriginal blood, or the least "foreign blood"?	1
Do the more emotionally intelligent animals such as dogs and elephants experience more abstract emotions that aren't a direct immediate response to stimuli, such as anxiety or paranoia?	1
Culturally speaking, why is it that halfcast children in the USA were historically shunned from society as negroes, but in Australia, while still shunned, they were sent to white homes to be raised as whites?	1