Animals Archive
Six years ago, researchers asked a radical question: could eggcases taken from trawler-caught sharks still hatch live, healthy young? An 8-9 week-old shark embryo in an eggcase. Photograph: Greg Nowell.Back in December 2012, I met up with Greg Nowell, co-founder of Sharklab-Malta, a non-profit NGO founded in
While we debate whether the durian is the best or worst food on the planet, it turns out this wonderful oddity requires healthy populations of flying fox for survival Hundreds of people scramble for durians, often called ‘the king of fruits’, during the Durian Festival in Kuala
The author’s mission to track down all 13 species of owl in Europe seems less a labour of love than a book-writing exercise ‘Fairly easily ticked off’: the tawny owl. Photograph: Alamy Stock PhotoOne darkish evening not so long ago, the nature writer Miriam Darlington stood in
A revolution is coming in our relationship with ‘lower’ creatures, provoked by a greater knowledge of their cognition. Labour’s new plans for animal welfare are just a start Octopuses show imagination and intention in much of their behaviour and habits. Photograph: Predrag Vuckovic/Getty Images/iStockphotoScientific insight is a
Populations of all kinds of wildlife are declining at alarming speed. One radical solution is to make 50% of the planet a nature reserve The total number of orangutans in Borneo has fallen to less than 100,000, half what it was in 1995. Photograph: Ralph Lee Hopkins/Getty
Feral pigeons are exposed to the same environmental factors as humans, so help explore the affect of contaminants, say researchers A study in Manhattan found that lead levels in pigeons’ blood were linked to the rate of children with raised blood lead levels. Photograph: Lucas Jackson/REUTERSPigeons might
Rosamund Young, farmer and author of The Secret Life of Cows, says she is really a ‘ghostwriter’ for her herd, with a mission to explain how they play games, babysit and even judge us. But that doesn’t mean she’s a vegetarian … Rosamund Young with one of
GPS data from the endangered young eagle, that was tagged by environmentalist Chris Packham, stopped transmitting before randomly restarting out at sea A pair of GPS-tagged golden eagle chicks. Last year 41 of 131 tagged golden eagles disappeared in Scotland, predominantly on or near to driven grouse
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Bleaklow, Derbyshire: They hunker down, escaping the wind and wary of predators, waiting for the hour after dark to feed Mountain hare (Lepus timidus). ‘A born survivor.’ Photograph: Alamy Stock PhotoBrilliant sunshine and a covering of snow had transformed Bleaklow into the Arctic, the sky azure overhead
