Why did the lion climb the tree?
Lions are not made for climbing trees. Fact. When it comes to arboreal living, it's the leopard that's the undisputed king of cats. So what exactly is going on in our 3D video of lions in the trees?
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6 new episodes since your last visit, below: the last 3.
Lions are not made for climbing trees. Fact. When it comes to arboreal living, it's the leopard that's the undisputed king of cats. So what exactly is going on in our 3D video of lions in the trees?
Turns out those poor, persecuted katydids just want to be more like dragons (oh, and they'd also like poison arrows to shoot out of their backsides).
A (pretty magical) video of a swirling murmuration of starlings got us thinking about other curious and unusual animal collective nouns. A pungent of sasquatch, anyone?
Coming to a hummingbird feeder near you ... a really hungry and ambitious praying mantis.
As an Earth Touch crew leaves sunny South Africa behind to do some serious chilling out in Antarctica, we’ve been thinking about some of the extreme adaptations necessary for survival when temperatures plummet below zero.
This week on our news roundup: alligator prosthetics, mosquito invasions, four-winged birds and adorable seals that love watersports!
Locust swarms of biblical proportions, tracking whales by song, primate discoveries and environmental warnings – all in this week's roundup of nature news.
The beautiful and detailed drawings created by German naturalist & illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian inspired Google's latest doodle ... and here's a little selection of them to feast your eyes on.
The cicadas are coming. And they have their own hashtag. In fact, all that stands between now and #swarmageddon is a little heat.
Face-sized tarantulas, protective elephants on a rampage, toxic rhino horns, cleaning up our oceans and why nature is good for your brain - all in this week's roundup of nature news.
A trusty camera, a few hours spent combing the undergrowth and voilà ... nature-lover Peter Webb gives us a glimpse into the wonderful world of the leafhopper.
Like most dates in the eco-calendar, 22 April is likely to attract its share of the usual dismissive criticism. But if you can bear to shelve that cynical reticence for just a few minutes, here's some good evidence to back Earth Day's world-changing credentials.
Around 20% of the world’s invertebrates are now at risk of extinction, so we’re happy to back any effort that highlights the importance of protecting the spineless species that make up the majority of life on earth. That’s why we're sharing the work of macro photographer Robert Oelman, who’s been exploring remote rainforests in search of some of the world's most exotic insects...
Whether you call it Workers’ Day or Labour Day, May 1 is associated with labour and workers’ rights. And with hard work in the spotlight, we’ve been looking at a few particularly industrious animals that deserve a day's rest of their own.
If you happen to be eating, you might want to come back later. Fascinating and disgusting in (almost) equal measure, here's a roach birth you won't easily forget.
Bees were the big newsmakers this week with the pesticide ban, but there were also insect-sized drones, lemurs in portrait, transgenic salmon and trees simply gasping for a drink. It's all in this week's roundup.
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.
Great news for the Wolkberg Zulu butterfly! The Lepidopterists’ Society of Africa has found a second colony of this extremely rare species.
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...
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!
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.
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.