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131A ball of active components changed its gait when rolling was no longer the useful way forward.
132A dark naked mole-rat tunnel is crowded with squeaks, grunts, chirps, and colony-specific accents.
133A piece of wood sank more than two kilometers, and a limpet no one had described was living on it.
134At Looe Key, snorkelers put their ears underwater and find the reef has a soundtrack.
135A muddy current can cross a threshold where scraping up more sediment makes it heavier, faster, and better at scraping up still more.
136The bean is a shelter, and the larva inside can move the whole shelter away from heat and light.
137A soft robot can bend almost anywhere, which makes knowing where it must not bend unusually difficult.
138A feeder looked safe, but one ant-associated odor persuaded hummingbirds to keep flying.
139A water anole dives with a silvery bubble repeatedly expanding and shrinking over its nostrils.
140In the French Pyrenees, sixty-three moving mirrors hand the sun to one enormous curved reflector.
The Weird Please editorial desk collects true stories about curious inventions, peculiar history, strange science, and the gloriously unexpected.
