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.

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wild TIMES • What’s happening right now

Rise and shine • After waking from a winter of hibernation, an adder’s first job is to shed its old skin and reveal a shiny new one

TV studios break ties with Kent theme park • BBC and ITV pull out of the controversial London Resort that would destroy a key wildlife site

Shark meat found in pet food • Consumers in South-East Asia are unwittingly feeding endangered sharks to their cats and dogs due to poor labelling

Singing in the gorse • Ignore the name. To find Dartford warblers, and enjoy their springtime singing, you’ll have to look elsewhere.

Fossil feast

The beetle with a bite • Great diving beetles will eat tadpoles and even small shcomespring

ORIGIN OF PIECES • AN ANATOMICAL MISCELLANY

GILLIAN BURKE • “Could we lose the thread of nature connection in just a few generations?”

PUBLIC DISPLAYS OF AFFECTION

10 venomous animals

Touch sensitive

Alexandra Carthey • The wildlife researcher creating biodegradable at-pack homes for animals following bush res

Bat-eating spider • Invasive noble false widows have been observed catching bats emerging from their roosts in England

Tapir frog

No poo, no worries

Lost & Found • VAGRANT SPECIES DIARY

PLAYING OUT

Drones identify pregnant dolphins

Chimp medicine • The apes have been seen treating their wounds using insects

COLLECTIVE NOUNS • WHAT’S IN A NAME?

Blooming marvellous • The frothy flowers of hawthorn deserve to be celebrated

Bitterns rebound

Rural hedgehogs still declining

FEMALE OF THE SPECIES TOPI ANTELOPES • Lucy Cooke on duelling cows competing for a prime bull

Buntings blow their cover • The dapper little bird that shows itself in spring

POO CORNER ID GUIDE • Gálapagos giant tortoise

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Dens for pine martens • Scottish foresters are attempting to boost the mustelid’s population to stave off the spread of grey squirrels

Ring of Bright Water

MORNING HAS BROKEN DAWN CHORUS • Spring is the best time to experience a musical feast like no other, as birds announce the start of each new day

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THE GREAT PRETENDER • Our most common ‘wannabee’ uses a powerful ick to re its eggs into the nests of solitary bees

Bee lookalike

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AGAINST THE ODDS • Brazil’s Pantanal was consumed by wild in 2020. Miraculously, its jaguars not only survived, but are now thriving in the world’s most famous wetland.

Lesser spotted • Jaguars are comparatively easy to see now, but there are plenty of cats in South America that prefer to stay in the shadows. Here are five you may not have heard of…

HOPPING BACK • Citizen science is reversing the fortunes of the UK’s largest grasshopper

Grasshoppers and crickets • All you need to know and how to tell the difference

BACKYARD BEARS • As their...