Icelandic brewery Stedji, which is producing the beer in time for the country’s mid-winter festival, Thorri, said the Hvalur 2 beer was made with the testicles of fin whales – which are classified as endangered on the conservation Red List – smoked in a “traditional way” with dried sheep dung. The move, which comes a […]
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Video: The Sandhill Cranes of Florida
Take a closer look at the incredible diversity that can be found in Florida’s freshwater marshes. Florida has its own sub-species of Sandhill Crane. Follow a pair of cranes as they prepare a nest, care for their eggs, and help their first chick as they prepare it for life on the marsh. This video was first […]
Video: The Wild Side of Singapore
A compilation of video clips of Singapore Wildlife taken mostly in 2014 around various parts of Singapore. This video was first published by Anthony Quek on 05 Jan 2015.
Video: Zombie Parasites by Anand Varma
What if, unbeknownst to you, someone—or something—was controlling your behavior for its own nefarious ends? Join photographer Anand Varma as he reveals this nightmare scenario being acted out over and over across the natural world, as unsuspecting hosts are compelled to nurture and protect mind-sucking parasites. This video was first published by National Geographic on […]
The weird world of seahorses and pipefish
In our first episode of this new series of Wild Oceans, cameraman Bart Lukasik takes us into the weird world of seahorses and pipefish. Watch as he employs artificial light to bring out the colours of the ornate ghost pipefish and see how different species mimic seaweed and corals. This video was first published by […]
Video: Christmas Island’s Incredible Red Crab Migration
Australia’s Christmas Island—located south of Indonesia in the Indian Ocean—is named for the day of its discovery in 1643. But, if you’re familiar with the incredible natural phenomenon that occurs there around this time of year, you may have thought the island was aptly named for the sea of red that blankets the island each […]
Poll: Should the grey squirrel be culled with public money?
Landowners are to be paid millions of pounds of public money to cull grey squirrels under the first national plan for managing their numbers. Under the scheme, designed to protect red squirrels and woodland, only those who agree to deal with the animals on their land will be eligible for forestry grants from the Government […]
Video: Panda Playing in Snow Goes Viral
A video of the Smithsonian National Zoo’s young giant panda, Bao Bao, tumbling down a snowy hill in Washington, D.C., has become a warm and fuzzy distraction amid this week’s frigid U.S. cold snap. As the year’s first snow blanketed the city on January 6, the 16-month-old female spent much of the morning playing in […]