Tiny tempter
It’s showtime for the male three-spined stickleback as he tries to attract a mate
Birds on the brain
Opportunistic oxpeckers can be both a headache and a help to hippos
Free swimmers
FREE SWIMMERS Tadpole season is upon us! But did you know that while most amphibian larvae are at risk from hungry fish, the tadpoles of the common toad are poisonous, so can boldly swim around a pond with impunity. This school were photographed in the grounds of a Viennese cemetery. PHOTO: CHRISTIAN WAPPL
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There’s plenty of life among the deer and departed
There’s plenty of life among the deer and departed PAUL McGUINNESS, EDITOR HOT ON THE HEELS OF OUR SEARCH TO FIND the UK’s favourite places for wildlife, which marked our 60th birthday earlier this year (discoverwildlife.com/60faves), Sir David Attenborough has taken his own epic tour of these islands for Wild Isles, a new five-part series […]
A bear family album that’s comfortingly familiar
What is it about bears that we humans just can’t get enough of?
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What’s happening right now
Follow the crowd
Striped marlin come together to feast on speedy schools of baitfish in the Pacific
A dose of sunshine
The bright brimstone butterfly is a welcome sight in early spring
Traffic noise makes rural robins more aggressive
New study finds country-dwelling robins get feistier in response to human-made noise pollution