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Cute features in babies and animals are more than just amusing—they trigger powerful evolutionary responses that help our species’ survival. Moo Deng, the baby pygmy hippo that has become ...

Instead, scientists often use the animal’s distinct calls—which sound like a crying newborn baby, the likely source of their name—to differentiate between closely related species.

This story appears in the May 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine ... Yet fish populations around the world, and the animals that eat them, depend on just how many larval fish make it ...