When you’re a little creature in the animal kingdom, you need to be constantly on the lookout for danger. But researchers have discovered that one animal significantly changes its behaviour when it thinks battles might come about in the future – and how costly those battles might be. New research from the University of Bristol demonstrates how dwarf mongooses (Helogale parvula) […]
Wyoming’s Failure Looms Large In The Wake Of Cody Roberts
With the sentencing of Cody Roberts, his heinous “wolf whacking” incident near Daniel, Wyoming appears to be behind us, and with Wyoming Legislator’s subsequent passage of an “animal cruelty” law, we have to ask: what, if anything has changed? Unfortunately, not much. Anyone can still take their snowmobile and run down a wolf, a coyote, […]
“Mothers are known to eat their own newborn babies…” 11 gruesome, grisly cannibal animals that feast on their own kind – you won’t believe number 3
Cannibalism – the act of eating an individual of the same species – is often not a good idea, and not just because of our own human morals. It can lead to the spread of some very nasty diseases, as well as the evolutionary cost of potentially eating your own kin. However, it is not […]
Petition: Queensland Must Stop the Shooting of Flying Foxes Now
Flying foxes, a type of large bat, are under fire in Australia… literally. The government in Queensland is giving people permission to continue shooting and killing flying foxes. These animals have just as much right to live as any of us – this is their habitat, and they shouldn’t be punished for that! Sign the […]
“I can barely believe that such an eerie sound could be created by an animal.” Tourists armed with tech are heading into the Amazon – to save monkeys
Screeches, yowls and the hum of cicadas echo alongside yelps, squawks, splashes and drips. It’s first light in the Peruvian Amazon and my ears are enlivened with the joyous din of nocturnal symphonies jostling with the waking dawn chorus. Then, I hear it: a long growl, like an approaching storm. I peer into the towering […]
Indonesia’s native hornbills are being hammered by online and offline trade
Among the many inhabitants of Southeast Asia’s dense rainforests are hornbills — a group of birds that stand out with their raucous call, large, ostentatious beak and colorful feathers. Indonesia harbors 13 species, the most of any country in Asia, three of which are found nowhere else. Hornbills are rapidly losing their homes as large swaths of […]
“There we were, being ambushed by a probably very hungry polar bear, in a boat with no engine and no means of protecting ourselves…”
In June 2017, I travelled to the high Arctic in Northern Canada on a shoot for the Netflix series Our Planet with director Sophie Lanfear, says documentary cinematographer Jamie McPherson. The further north you go, the smaller the planes get. You hop from community to community, until snow and ice cover everything as far as the eye can […]
Big agriculture is killing our bees. We’ll all pay the price
Last winter, commercial beekeepers lost more than 60% of their colonies – their worst losses on record. We tend to blame bee losses on separate, singular threats: pests, pesticides, habitat loss or extreme weather. But we’ve been thinking about bee losses wrong. The real culprit is our industrial food system. Managed honeybees are in effect […]