Animals-and-Pets
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SHAKE A LEG
Despite carefully maintaining their eight appendages, harvestmen will part with one to live another day
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October 2023
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TRUE COLOURS
Summer may have gone but the trees are about to dazzle with an uplifting display
3 min |
October 2023
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Falsetto flocks
Tune your ears to the high-pitched calls of returning redwings
1 min |
October 2023
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Review protections for beavers, say MPs
Influential committee argues that the rules safeguarding the rodents are too stringent
1 min |
October 2023
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Static electricity gives ticks a boost
New science reveals how these blood-sucking, parasitic arachnids can be propelled through the air
1 min |
October 2023
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Prickly issue
Europe's urban corvids are using anti-bird spikes from nearby buildings to make their nests
1 min |
October 2023
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Belinda Nalwamba
Bravery and paramilitary skills are vital as a member of Zambia's first all-female anti-poaching unit
1 min |
October 2023
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Fungi gets a day in the sun
The tenth UK Fungus Day celebrates our incredibly diverse fungi species
1 min |
October 2023
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Big whale discovery
Prehistoric skeleton found in Peru rivals the blue whale as the heaviest animal to have ever lived
2 min |
October 2023
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Sweet nothings
Do honeyguide birds really help honey badgers find bees' nests? Well, probably.....
1 min |
October 2023
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Highest ever ocean temperatures recorded
Experts express alarm that the average global sea surface temperature hit new highs this summer
1 min |
October 2023
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Fattening up for Christmas
Squirrels are super-busy getting ready to survive the winter months
1 min |
October 2023
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Female of the Species - Bonobo
Lucy Cooke on the great apes forming a powerful sisterhood
2 min |
September 2023
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Holding out for a hero
One brave woman, one soggy badger - and a jet ski
2 min |
September 2023
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SNAP-CHAT WITH BBC WILDLIFE PICTURE EDITOR TOM GILKS
Ben Hall on destructive deer and getting socked by a gannet
1 min |
September 2023
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Algae: simple plants or simply plant-like?
WHAT ARE ALGAE? THE TERM IS used for everything from microscopic bacteria and plankton to pond slime and seaweeds, but unlike animals and many other living things, algal groups are an assortment without a single common ancestor. That said, one feature is shared by most algae in every group: photosynthesis – the ability to make food from carbon dioxide and sunlight, releasing oxygen, just like plants.
2 min |
September 2023
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TOTALLY CHOUGHED
After a 200-year absence, the rare red-billed chough has been returned to its ancient Kent homeland
7 min |
September 2023
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Норе for the high seas
Global leaders have agreed to a landmark treaty that will safeguard marine life in our shared waters
7 min |
September 2023
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HIDE AND SEEK
The western lowland gorilla is not as familiar as its mountain cousin, but the forests of Central Africa are gradually revealing the secrets of this elusive ape
7 min |
September 2023
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PHOTO OPPORTUNITY
An initiative in South Africa is using cameras to nurture the conservationists of tomorrow
7 min |
September 2023
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GIMME SHELTER
In Costa Rica, a pioneering charity is helping vulnerable sloths that have lost their homes due to deforestation
3 min |
September 2023
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STUCK IN THE MIDDLE
SEA SLATER - Meet the giant woodlouse that can only survive in the damp zone between land and sea
2 min |
September 2023
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BLOWIN' IN THE WIND
Catch all the action as spectacular cetaceans swim by our shores
3 min |
September 2023
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MARK CARWARDINE
\"Why would killer whales attack yachts in 21st-century Europe?\"
2 min |
September 2023
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Aim of the game
Adult craneflies appear in September with the purpose to mate
1 min |
September 2023
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Speedy fish
After disappearing in the 1960s, turbocharged bluefin tuna are back
1 min |
September 2023
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Hummingbirds know their drink-fly limits
New research shows that one particular species can function under the influence - up to a point
1 min |
September 2023
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Lost & Found
COMMON SWIFTS ARE A FAMILIAR FIXTURE of our summer skies, but there are a number of rarer species in this bird family that visit as occasional vagrants from afar.
1 min |
September 2023
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Iceland suspends fin whale hunting
The groundbreaking decision lasts until late August and could spell the end of whaling in the country
1 min |
September 2023
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Katty Baird
National Museums Scotland volunteer and author of Meetings with Moths on documenting British Lepidoptera
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