Wildlife
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We need a recipe to save the red squirrelBrief letters: Squirrel cull | Housebuilding | PPE and LSE | More leftovers | La La Land
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Premature baby hippo saved by children’s hospital staff – video reportFiona, a prematurely-born Nile hippo calf, is making excellent progress at her home at The Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden after the staff from a local children’s hospital stepped in to help
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Australian termites followed similar evolutionary path to humans, study findsDNA sequencing shows insects crossed oceans then migrated from treetops to the ground to adapt to ancient climate change
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Giant anteater and jaguar in rare battle – camera-trap videoCamera -trap footage shows a giant anteater going toe-to-toe with a jaguar in the Gurupi Biological Reserve in the Brazilian state of Maranhão
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‘Insane’ camera trap video captures rare battle in the AmazonWithout camera traps we would never be privy to two endangered species sparring in the remote Amazon rainforest.
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Glimpse of a landscape fashioned by birdsCountry diary: Blackwater Carr, Norfolk Once you are attuned to this avian tree propagation, it becomes a pleasure to find other instances
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A world safe for robots and mammothsLetters: Woolly mammoths | Transport investment | Baby boomers | Flat cakes | Weetabix |
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100 years ago: Thaw livens up the hedge-frequentersOriginally published in the Manchester Guardian on 20 February 1917: Everywhere the thrushes, starlings and dunnocks are shuffling their wings and trilling vigorously
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In search of Tanzania's bee-eatersBirdwatch In the Selous Game Reserve you can see seven different bee-eaters. Each one sports impossibly beautiful colours
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An 'Arctic' safari in the Scottish HighlandsWinter in the Cairngorms national park can turn positively Arctic – perfect for Kari Herbert to give her small daughter a taste of the polar conditions, and creatures, she enjoyed as a child in Greenland
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Winged surprise lifts spirits on a cold morningCountry diary: Slufters Inclosure, New Forest This hardy specimen of butterfly has found an ideal basking site among still damp grasses in a bed of fern
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The week in wildlife – in picturesSea turtles laying eggs, buffalo and a swan lake are among this week’s pick of images from the natural world
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GM 'surrogate hens' could lay eggs of rare chicken breeds, scientists sayRadical plan to maintain diversity of gene pool proposes use of genetically modified chickens as surrogate mothers
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At a time of urban growth, nature is feared, subjugated and concreted over. But now, more than ever, we need the chaos of wildnessPity the imperilled butterfly, fluttering out of toxic lives. Pity us, too
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Wildlife ranger killed in Zambia leaves behind seven childrenRodrick Ngulube was shot by poachers in West Petauke game management area, after rangers discovered carcasses of a warthog and zebra
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Tiny plastic pellets found on 73% of UK beachesGreat Winter Nurdle Hunt finds thousands of pellets used in plastic production washed up on shorelines around country
Biologists say half of all species could be extinct by end of century