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EU Legislation Takes Aim at Nature Conservation in the Face of the Climate Crisis

14 June 2023

Bowhead whales rock- all winter long.

04 April 2018

Untamed Travel Possibilities for your imagination or your future plans.

26 September 2017

Sneeze to leave, and wild dogs vote for a hunt!

06 September 2017

Sheep hunted before domestication in the Middle East.

23 August 2017

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Mammals as they used to be.

featured Mammals as they used to be.

The number of marsupial species is only now shown up by numbers of species of groups like the American opossums. This is the Andean white-eared opossum Didelphis pernigra. We have...

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Femme fatale mantis is a cheating cannibal

Femme fatale mantis is a cheating cannibal

The sacrifice a male makes to mate is often the ultimate one. But some femmes fatales in the Australian mantid make a habit of it. mantid image; Credit: © Katherine...

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The artful crocodiles can hunt cooperatively.

The artful crocodiles can hunt cooperatively.

The salt-water or estuarine croc. exhibits a great range of abilities that we should disregard at our peril. In this fabulous photograph, look at those eyes and imagine that ancient...

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Monkeys' and apes' cultural learning

Monkeys' and apes' cultural learning

With a stone and a nut the bearded capuchin can easily demonstrate his tool-using ability, or his bad temper. Capuchin image; Credit: © Shutterstock When we use a tool, the...

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Oil palm ecology suits some.

Oil palm ecology suits some.

Found in Borneo, the large stork-billed kingfisher, Pelargopsis capensis, needs to be rehabilitated to its novel habitat of oil palm plantations if at all possible. Many others will be unable...

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Cultures can exist beyond the (naked) apes.

Cultures can exist beyond the (naked) apes.

In the Gambia, family life imparts culture naturally, while 15 French baboons may well be ready for their Baccalaureate; Papio image; Credit: © Shutterstock The evolution of culture among intelligent...

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Spot (or hear) the vole - in the snow

Spot (or hear) the vole - in the snow

He's spotted you. Most of us would never expect the weasel to change colour like the stoat/ermine in our milder winters, but in Siberia, here is Mustela nivalis showing his...

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Horse Sense

Horse Sense

Looking a little inbred, this herd of Przewalki’s horse are the ideal-more than a simple breed-an actual subspecies that has remained wild (and stubborn) since their speciation; Przewalski herd image;...

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