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    The Forest Five
    The charming dipper lives up to its name, bobbing up and down on the water-lapped boulders of fast-flowing streams, before plunging in for up to 30 seconds to literally walk underwater as it hunts aquatic insects. It can be seen throughout the year.
    BBC Wildlife Magazine1 min read
    Seals in Suffolk
    A grey seal colony has established itself at a former military testing site used during both world wars and into the Cold War. More than 130 seal pups have been born at Orford Ness in Suffolk this breeding season. Rangers say that the site, now owned
    BBC Wildlife Magazine3 min read
    Gillian Burke
    THE IDEA OF HUMANS AS AN interplanetary species has been gaining momentum for the past few decades. Admittedly, I’m a little late to the party as I only first heard the term last year in an interview with the billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, who r
    BBC Wildlife Magazine1 min read
    Making A Scene
    There aren’t many animals that can be mistaken for an entire landscape. This crustacean appears geological – a continent rising from the ocean, perhaps, or a mountain range bathed in the light of a setting sun. The Puget Sound king crab is a squat, r
    BBC Wildlife Magazine1 min read
    Fast Facts
    The increase in white rhino numbers since trophy hunting was introduced in 1968 The number of lions found in Bubye Valley Conservancy in Zimbabwe today, a 40-fold increase since 1999 when it was first managed for trophy hunting The number of trophies
    BBC Wildlife Magazine4 min read
    ALL YOU EVER NEEDED TO KNOW ABOUT THE Gila monster
    NAMED AFTER THE ARIZONA GILA River basin, where they were first discovered, Gila (pronounced hee-lah) monsters are one of only a small number of venomous reptiles and the largest lizards in the USA. The creatures have a frightening reputation, especi
    BBC Wildlife Magazine1 min read
    Before The dinosaurs
    DINOSAURS dominated life on Earth for 180 million years, between the Triassic and the Cretaceous periods. But the animals that came before them paved the way for species that still exist today. After the emergence of the first true animals around 700
    BBC Wildlife Magazine2 min read
    The Crossword
    8 Tree that produces a firm, juicy drupe (4) 9 Large rodent of South America (5) 10 Kingfish (4) 11 Macaw or cockatoo, perhaps (6) 12 Small songbird such as the dunnock (8) 13 ___ eel, fish that shocks its prey (8) 15 Insect-eating songbird of North
    BBC Wildlife Magazine10 min read
    On The hunt
    SINCE 2009, AMY DICKMAN HAS COME ACROSS some horrific sights on the edge of Ruaha National Park in Central Tanzania where she studies, and tries to resolve, conflict between people and predators. They included lion cubs that had been speared and dump
    BBC Wildlife Magazine1 min read
    On The BBC This Month
    Presenter Adam Walton meets two researchers from Bangor University to learn about the diversity of venomous snakes found across ancient Egypt by combining ancient texts with current technology. Catch up on BBC Sounds In this new series, Emily Knight
    BBC Wildlife Magazine1 min read
    Coelacanth
    Lived 420 m.y.a to the present day THIS ELUSIVE FISH STILL inhabits some deep parts of the Indian Ocean, but up until the mid-20th century it was thought to be long-extinct. Then, in 1938, a strange-looking, 1.5m-long fish was caught off the coast of
    BBC Wildlife Magazine1 min read
    BBC Wildlife
    Available from BBC Wildlife magazine is full of breathtaking photos and fascinating features on the most interesting animals and habitats in the UK and around the world. With the latest news and conservation issues, practical expert advice and ideas
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    Calling All Conchologists
    Snail-watching was the subject of a five-page feature in the June 1983 issue of Wildlife. Curator of the Gilbert White Museum and keen conchologist June Chatfield covers all aspects of the lives of Britain’s 87 species of land snail, from their stran
    BBC Wildlife Magazine1 min read
    Scutosaurus
    Lived 259-251.9 m.y.a THERE WEREN’T MANY animals bigger than Scutosaurus during the Late Permian, particularly in the ‘cold deserts’ of ancient Russia. These forklift-sized reptiles weren’t just long, at around 3m from head to tail, but heavy too, br
    BBC Wildlife Magazine2 min read
    New Law Restricts Pet Monkey Ownership
    FOLLOWING YEARS OF CAMPAIGNING BY the RSPCA, legislation introduced recently by the government will mean tighter future controls on the domestic keeping of primates. There are up to 5,000 pet primates in the UK, the most common being marmoset monkeys
    BBC Wildlife Magazine1 min read
    Spot The Difference
    Peacock butterflies are one of the most recognisable species in Britain, with their striking eye-like markings that look like the spots found on the tail feathers of peacocks. Can you spot the five differences between these images?
    BBC Wildlife Magazine2 min read
    How The Cooperation Of Coyote Mothers Is Key To The Species’ Survival
    WHILE MOST NORTH AMERICAN mammal species are suffering declines, there is one species that bucks the trend quite dramatically, even in the face of intense persecution. Coyotes are North America’s most oppressed animal – more than 400,000 are extermin
    BBC Wildlife Magazine3 min read
    Snap-chat
    How did your career start? I lived in Tanzania as a child and some of my earliest memories are from family safaris. That was the beginning of my passion for nature. I started university just as decent and affordable digital SLRs were entering the sce
    BBC Wildlife Magazine1 min read
    Red Alert
    ONE BEE TO LOOK OUT FOR THIS APRIL is the red mason bee. It is common in towns and suburbia and resembles a small, gingery honeybee. The red mason is a kind of solitary bee, which means the female builds her own nest cells instead of living in a colo
    BBC Wildlife Magazine1 min read
    Guiding Lights For Bees
    IT’S A LITTLE OVER 400 YEARS SINCE THE first horse chestnut trees were brought to the British Isles from their native home in the mountains of Greece. You only have to look at these handsome trees covered in pinkish-white blossom to appreciate why th
    BBC Wildlife Magazine1 min read
    Sphaerotheca Varshaabhu
    WHAT IS IT? This plump, innocent-looking character is a new species of burrowing frog. Up to about 4cm in length, it can be distinguished from other members of its genus by its liver-spotted skin dotted with raised orange pimples. WHERE IS IT? So far
    BBC Wildlife Magazine1 min read
    Puffin Rally
    Iceland is home to 60 per cent of the world’s puffins. In 2023, for the second year running, two young photographers joined a trio of scientists to undertake an expedition known as the Puffin Rally – an avian odyssey across the length and breadth of
    BBC Wildlife Magazine1 min read
    Meganeura
    Lived 305-299 m.y.a WITH A WINGSPAN measuring more than 70cm, six spindly, spiny legs and huge compound eyes, Meganeura was terrifying enough to scare even the most ardent insect-lover. This four-winged monster is widely regarded as the largest flyin
    BBC Wildlife Magazine3 min read
    Biodiversity: Beyond Counting Species
    ACCORDING TO A DEFINITION from the United Nations 1992 Convention on Biological Diversity, biodiversity is “variability among living organisms from all sources [and] includes diversity within species, between species and of ecosystems.” And yet conse
    BBC Wildlife Magazine2 min read
    Nesting Site Of Secretive Turtle Revealed By Locals
    A GROUP OF BIOLOGISTS HAS DISCOVERED a breeding population of extremely rare Cantor’s giant softshell turtles (Pelochelys cantorii) on the banks of the Chandragiri River in India’s tropical south-west. It’s the first time this secretive species has b
    BBC Wildlife Magazine3 min read
    Biggest Spiders
    Hailing from the rainforests of northern South America, this is the largest spider by body mass (up to 175g) and by body length (13cm). Its name derives from an 18th-century engraving that depicted another tarantula species eating a hummingbird, whic
    BBC Wildlife Magazine7 min read
    Tales Of The unexpected
    ASK ANYONE WHAT THEIR FAVOURITE ANIMAL IS and chances are it will be a mammal. Lions, whales, dolphins, tigers, chimps, bears – they are all iconic. So being asked to make a new six-part BBC series about this extraordinary group of animals was a comp
    BBC Wildlife Magazine3 min read
    Hope In Science
    Though it died at just 70 days old, this tiny southern white rhino foetus offers hope. The baby was the result of the first successful attempt to perform IVF on a rhino, carried out by scientists from the BioRescue project in September 2023. The unbo
    BBC Wildlife Magazine1 min read
    BBC Wildlife Magazine
    EDITOR Paul McGuinness MANAGING EDITOR Sarah McPherson PRODUCTION EDITOR Catherine Mossop SEO LEAD Debbie Graham CREATIVE LEAD Stacey Black CREATIVE DESIGNER Annie Sanderson PICTURE & VIDEO EDITOR Tom Gilks CONTENT & TRENDS EDITOR Daniel Graham Scott
    BBC Wildlife Magazine1 min read
    Are There Any Plants That Can Walk?
    PLANTS DON’T REALLY DO LOCOMOTION. True, some seeds can travel long distances on the wind or in the stomachs of animals, and tumbleweeds scatter theirs by uprooting and rolling around in the background whenever a joke falls flat. But as a rule, plant

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