BBC Wildlife Magazine

BBC Wildlife Magazine is a celebration of the natural world, featuring all the latest discoveries, news and views on wildlife, conservation and environmental issues. With strong broadcasting links, authoritative journalism and award-winning photography, BBC Wildlife Magazine is essential reading for anyone with a passion for wildlife who wants to understand, experience and enjoy nature more.

There’s plenty of life among the deer and departed

BBC Wildlife Magazine

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Wild TIMES • What’s happening right now

Birds on the brain • Opportunistic oxpeckers can be both a headache and a help to hippos

Tiny tempter • It’s showtime for the male three-spined stickleback as he tries to attract a mate

Sloths in new study are stronger on their left side • The consistent tendency for left sidedness across the individuals researched was unexpected

Reading the signs • Humans can understand gestures of other great apes

Catch it quick • The St Mark’s fly adult stage doesn't last long

Cuckoo pints are in bloom • Lords-and-ladies flower in April and May and favour shady habitats

ORIGIN OF PIECES • A wrybill’s beak

GILLIAN BURKE • “The ability to respond to change is baked into Earth’s systems”

THE VOICE

Helen Roy • Ecologist at the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology on invasive non-native species

Crackle and pop • Short-beaked echidnas avoid over-heating by blowing – and bursting – bubbles on their nose

Hyloscirtus tolkieni

Lost & Found • Greater yellowlegs, Waterford

PRETTY IN PINK

When spiders go fishing • A long-jawed orb-weaver spider uses its web to catch aquatic insects

COLLECTIVE NOUNS • A nest of crocodiles

Loud and proud • Secretive corncrakes with a scraping call arrive in the UK this month

FEMALE OF THE SPECIES • Lucy Cooke on nature’s most martyred mother

Reel in a warbler • The distinctive song of this summer migrant has its own name

POO CORNER • Greater sage-grouse

MARK CARWARDINE • “Without anti-poaching patrols, there would be no rhinos left to protect”

Damselfish behaviour is influenced by rats • Loss of seabirds through rat predation affects reef fish hostility and could have wider impacts

Born Free

WE BUILT THIS CITY • Discover a mini metropolis housing hundreds of thousands of social insects

AIN’T NOBODY • When it comes to reproducing, eating and breathing, this strange spider-like creature is all legs

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THE DEER AND THE DEPARTED • Intimate photos of roe deer reveal insights into family life in England’s graveyards

ON CLOUD 9 • High up in the cloud forests of Guatemala lives the breathtakingly beautiful national bird

DEEP DIVE • Risso’s dolphins are rare and little-known, but conservationists are trying to learn more about them off the Balearic Islands

Do not stroke the lion • From patting penguins to selfies with bison, are people becoming more reckless around wildlife? And is education or punishment the answer?

Fight or flight • In one coastal Scottish village, a dispute rages between those who want to shoot wintering pink-footed geese and those who want to protect them

Is it okay to feed red squirrels?

Is the mountain chicken really a chicken?

BBC WILDLIFE EXPERTS

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