Animals-and-Pets
BBC Wildlife
ALL YOU EVER NEEDED TO KNOW ABOUT Pufferfish
PUFFERFISH ARE TOXIC WATER 'balloons' that know how to defend themselves against predators.
3 min |
April 2025
BBC Wildlife
TO CATCH A CAIMAN
Studying caimans in the Amazon can help the species onservation - but you have to catch one first
7 min |
April 2025
BBC Wildlife
IN PURSUIT OF PARADISE
An adventure in Papua New Guinea to seek some of the world's most incredible birds is the culmination of a 40-year dream
7 min |
April 2025
BBC Wildlife
SMALL BEGINNINGS
Without the egg, animals as we know them - including us – could not have evolved and flourished. This is the rise of the egg
8 min |
April 2025
BBC Wildlife
CIRCLE IN THE SAND
The seldom-seen subterranean insect that swims beneath our feet
3 min |
April 2025
BBC Wildlife
SHAKE IT OFF
When it comes to impressing the females, peacocks know how to put on a show
3 min |
April 2025
BBC Wildlife
ZOO QUEST
Many people believe zoos have an important role to play in conserving species. We investigate if this really justifies keeping animals in captivity
8 min |
April 2025
BBC Wildlife
Rise of the killer hornets
Asia's yellow-legged hornet has a toehold in Britain but we're keeping it at bay - for now
6 min |
April 2025
BBC Wildlife
Super-strong animals
Some of the world's mightiest creatures, from crabs to crocs
2 min |
April 2025
BBC Wildlife
Does anything live at the top of Mount Everest?
TERRESTRIAL HABITATS DON'T GET ANY higher than the summits of Himalayan peaks. And Himalayan peaks don't get any taller than Everest.
6 min |
April 2025
BBC Wildlife
Electroreception: a shocking sense
ELECTRICITY IS THE RESULT OF interactions between objects with electric charge - and batteries aren't the only things that can be charged.
2 min |
April 2025
BBC Wildlife
FEMALE OF THE SPECIES
These ladies have a voice – and a taste for vandalism
2 min |
April 2025
BBC Wildlife
GILLIAN BURKE
“Losing sight of this version of the human story hurts us all in the end”
2 min |
April 2025
BBC Wildlife
7 nature encounters for the month ahead
WITH NATURALIST AND AUTHOR BEN HOARE
3 min |
April 2025
BBC Wildlife
WALKING WITH PENGUINS
Mourning her late husband, photographer Ursula Clare Franklin needed a new direction. Soon she was travelling the world, on a quest to photograph her favourite animal, the penguin all 18 species of them
7 min |
March 2025
BBC Wildlife
"Satellites and space tech play a huge role in protecting the natural world"
Far above our heads, space technology is supporting conservation in exciting and vital ways
6 min |
March 2025
BBC Wildlife
FOREVER YOUNG
The prehistoric-looking insect that never grows up
2 min |
March 2025
BBC Wildlife
BIRDS THAT BREAK THE RULES
Discover the extraordinary birds that defy nature's norms
9 min |
March 2025
BBC Wildlife
FEMALE OF THE SPECIES
Vampire bats make for blood-spewing besties
2 min |
March 2025
BBC Wildlife
Onagers gallop back to Saudi Arabia
Rare subspecies fills the desert niche left by its extinct relative
1 min |
March 2025
BBC Wildlife
Front lines for nature
Inside the ambitious UK project rallying local communities to fight for wildlife
5 min |
March 2025
BBC Wildlife
"Europe seems hellbent on creating the most hostile environment for bears possible"
WE EUROPEANS ARE INCAPABLE of living alongside predators.
3 min |
March 2025
BBC Wildlife
Airborne lifts off on Sky Nature
ACROSS THE PLANET, ANIMALS HAVE conquered the skies in ways we can only dream of.
1 min |
March 2025
BBC Wildlife
CROSS COUNTRY
Translocating elephants is no mean feat-but it's helping this iconic mammal to reclaim its historic lands
7 min |
March 2025
BBC Wildlife
Oyster reefs in ruins
Vital habitat is all but lost from Europe's seas
1 min |
March 2025
BBC Wildlife
Protect the prey and the lions will roar
Study proves that lions thrive when snaring is reduced
1 min |
March 2025
BBC Wildlife
wild MARCH
7 nature encounters for the month ahead
3 min |
March 2025
BBC Wildlife
GILLIAN BURKE
\"Many of us have been disconnected from the miracle that is water\"
2 min |
March 2025
BBC Wildlife
ALL YOU EVER NEEDED TO KNOW ABOUT Wolves
WOLVES ARE THE LARGEST members of the dog family (Canidae) and can be found in Europe, Asia, North America and Africa. They are highly sociable mammals that typically travel and hunt in packs.
3 min |
February 2025
BBC Wildlife
How is a queen bee chosen?
PEOPLE HAVE LONG PEERED INTO beehives and seen a model for human society. There is much to admire the work ethic, the cooperation, the selflessness. But a hive could equally be seen as a product of a repressive class system, even a tyranny. Because some bees are more equal than others.
2 min |