Wildlife for the Web

Meet the ‘Cheetah-cub’, a fast, four-legged robot complete with limbs that mimic the stealthy gait of real felines.

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From a newborn cub at a US zoo to a lucky sighting in Bhutan, two rare & threatened leopards have been making headlines ... and not of the gloomy, eco-grief variety.

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A clearly hungry cub burrows its way a little too vigorously into the posterior end of a buffalo carcass … and finds that getting out is not quite as easy as getting in...

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It's been a week of highs and lows: from the grim aftermath of a turtle conservationist's murder to some light-hearted dolphin surfing snaps, ghostly caterpillar shrouds and new protections for chimps, it's all in our roundup of nature news.

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With space only getting more and more crowded on the endangered species list, it’s not often you hear of animals that bounce back and get “delisted”. But what happens to those lucky few? Is there life after delisting? Writer and photographer Kathryn Cooper investigates …

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It might look like an ordinary beetle to you or me, but expert insect hunter Peter Webb knows he's in the presence of an ant-exploiting, explosively armed superbug.

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She might love your head rubs, but Baby the alligator is still a bad pet. Just get a cat, we say!

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Heading out into the sprawling wilderness of Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park as part of a landmark biodiversity survey, entomologist and photographer Piotr Naskrecki discovers that the ‘Abominable Frogman’ who strikes fear into tiny amphibian hearts is actually a conservation superhero…

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With 86% of all plants and animals on land and 91% of those in our oceans still to be named and catalogued, so much of the natural world is still waiting to be discovered. Nature enthusiast Peter Webb made his own small contribution to the catalogue of life when he discovered a little bug that got South African entomologists very excited...

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Photographing birds is certainly no easy feat. Kirsten Horne gets to grips with flitting wings and flicking tails as she attempts to capture that perfect avian shot.

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This week in the world of nature: Bloody mammoths, re-wilding to save the world's ecosystems, genetically engineered mosquitoes, diving for dugongs and a chat with a leading sustainability visionary.

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They've been around for millions of years and are equipped for the kill. Don’t be fooled by the apparently silky exterior of the velvet worm, these decadent fellows are expert hunters.

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From the plight of poor sustenance fishermen to the damage caused by commercial fleets, underwater cameraman Mark Thorpe tackles an issue that's drowning in controversy: shark finning.

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Tarantulas have successfully crawled their way into popular culture as the ultimate "scary spider". In South Africa, this group of frightening arachnids are loosely referred to as baboon spiders. Expert Peter Webb takes a closer look at this feared family.

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Turtle numbers across the globe are declining as a result of habitat destruction, the exotic food industry and the international and often illegal pet trade. In an effort to curb the dwindling numbers, the American Tortoise Rescue (ATR) started World Turtle Day observed annually on May 23.

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Great news for the Wolkberg Zulu butterfly! The Lepidopterists’ Society of Africa has found a second colony of this extremely rare species.

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14000 people from 142 countries took part in a recent survey conducted by Arkive to uncover the world's favourite species. The results are in and you might be a little surprised by who took first place.

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This week in nature: some grim karma for a poacher, sock-sniffing mosquitoes, forced abstinence for endangered fish, alien ant invaders and some very eloquent prairie dogs!

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If you've never heard of a wildlife auction, think 'Storage Wars' crossed with an Attenborough special. Well, maybe not exactly ... but substitute the rows of storage containers with bomas (special wildlife enclosures) and the secondhand treasure with rhino and giraffe, and you’re pretty close.

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This week on the roundup: fungal communication, saving turtles with LEDs, everything you need to know about entomophagy and why serving lion meat tacos is a stupid thing to do.

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