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Physics teaching in schools could be transformed by highlighting its role in the animal kingdom.

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  1. Matin Durrani is Editor of the international magazine Physics World and co-author, with Liz Kalaugher, of Furry Logic: The Physics of Animal Life (Bloomsbury, 2016),

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Durrani, M. Animal magic. Nature Phys 13, 107–108 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys4032

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