Fishing-Hunting
BBC Wildlife
Big cats in BRITAIN
Sightings and DNA tests suggest that large cats such as black leopards are quietly naturalising in Britain. Here’s the whole story.
7 min |
February 2025
BBC Wildlife
SLOW BUT SURE
The Javan slow loris has suffered a huge population decline in recent years. But conservation efforts are turning the tide for this fascinating animal.
7 min |
February 2025
BBC Wildlife
wild FEBRUARY
7 nature encounters for the month ahead
3 min |
February 2025
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AI brings hope for rare reds
New tech 'Squirrel Agent' can target invasive greys at feeders
1 min |
February 2025
BBC Wildlife
SHAPE OF YOU
Its hefty headgear has garnered this sap-sucker mythical status
2 min |
February 2025
BBC Wildlife
Smell: an ancient animal sense
DETECTING CHEMICALS IN THE environment enables an individual to identify molecules secreted by predators or prey, potential poisons and sexual partners. This benefit D to survival and reproduction helps explain why smell - olfaction - is probably the oldest sense and evolved 500 million years ago, around the origin of animals.
2 min |
February 2025
BBC Wildlife
Feeding birds may kill them
We love to attract birds to our gardens, but feeders can pose a deadly risk
4 min |
February 2025
BBC Wildlife
A CRAB CALLED JOHN
The yellow land crab lives a secret life on an island stronghold off the coast of Brazil. One photographer went to find out more about this charismatic crustacean.
7 min |
February 2025
BBC Wildlife
REACH FOR THE SKY
In the 1970s, the bald eagle was on the verge of extinction. Thanks in part to the pioneering work of one young biologist, this magnificent bird has made a spectacular comeback.
7 min |
February 2025
BBC Wildlife
Why do penguins give stones to each other?
THERE'S NOT A GREAT CHOICE OF NEST-building materials in the Antarctic. Pretty much the only things available to gentoo, Adélie and chinstrap penguins are pebbles, which at least serve to raise eggs off the frozen ground.
1 min |
February 2025
BBC Wildlife
LIFE'S A BEACH
These impressive predators launch themselves from the surf in a spectacular hunting strategy
3 min |
February 2025
BBC Wildlife
Big step for great Indian bustards
Artificial insemination offers a ray of hope
1 min |
February 2025
BBC Wildlife
Why aren't pterosaurs classed as dinosaurs?
THROUGHOUT THE MANY MILLIONS OF years that the likes of Triceratops, T. rex and Brontosaurus dominated the land, pterosaurs ruled the skies.
1 min |
February 2025
BBC Wildlife
Renato Granieri talks chimps, penguins and high altitudes
SNAP-CHAT WITH BBC WILDLIFE PICTURE EDITOR TOM GILKS
2 min |
February 2025
BBC Wildlife
FEMALE OF THE SPECIES GREAT TINAMOU
It pays not to put all your eggs in one basket
2 min |
February 2025
BBC Wildlife
How do crocodiles mate?
AS THE OLD JOKE GOES: CAREFULLY! Crocodiles have terrifying predatory instincts and you only have to consider the risks taken by a courting male black widow spider to see how predatory instincts can ruin a beautiful moment.
2 min |
February 2025
BBC Wildlife
KINGDOM OF THE ICE BEAR
Powerful and ruthless, but playful and tender, the polar bears of Svalbard are as complex as they are beautiful, says photographer Florian Ledoux
3 min |
February 2025
BBC Wildlife
Expedition Killer Whale
IN A REMOTE CORNER OF ANTARCTICA, a group of around 100 killer whales has developed an extraordinary method of hunting, known as wave-washing.
1 min |
February 2025
BBC Wildlife
Salmon to surge after largest dam removal project in history
California's Klamath River in recovery following large-scale restoration
1 min |
February 2025
BBC Wildlife
SNAP-CHAT
Justin Gilligan on giant spider crabs and holding hands with an octopus
2 min |
January 2025
BBC Wildlife
STEPPE CHANGE
Herds of saiga have returned to Kazakhstan, but there's a fine balance to tread
7 min |
January 2025
BBC Wildlife
TREES FOR LIFE
Community is at the heart of conservation in the tropical forests of southern Belize
7 min |
January 2025
BBC Wildlife
WHEN DOVES CRY
Turtle doves are now the UK's fastest declining bird species, but the RSPB is on a mission to save them
7 min |
January 2025
BBC Wildlife
SURVIVAL OF THE CUTEST
We can't help being drawn to cute creatures, but our aesthetic preferences both help and hinder conservation
8 min |
January 2025
BBC Wildlife
LIGHT ON THE NORTH
Spectacular images of Arctic foxes, reindeer and musk oxen reveal the wild beauty and diversity of Scandinavia
3 min |
January 2025
BBC Wildlife
ROLLING IN THE DEEP
The super-sized crustacean that lives in the deepest, darkest ocean
2 min |
January 2025
BBC Wildlife
LET'S GET TOGETHER
Clay licks deep in the Amazon explode in a riot of colour, with macaws the stars of the show
3 min |
January 2025
BBC Wildlife
FEMALE OF THE SPECIES
To sponge or not to sponge? That is the question for the bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus) living in Shark Bay, Western Australia.
2 min |
January 2025
BBC Wildlife
7 nature encounters for the month ahead
WITH NATURALIST AND AUTHOR BEN HOARE
3 min |
January 2025
BBC Wildlife
Photo bombing
Wildlife is being harmed by our need to get the perfect shot - and share it
5 min |