Animal Behaviour
Watch: Curious lion nibbles on car mirror before pawing at the window
There are close-up lion encounters and then there's this ...
7 days ago
Animal Behaviour
The art of staying stable: Hawkmoths are masters of hovering
A tiny copper cannonball is no match for the hawkmoth's hovering prowess.
8 days ago
Animal Behaviour
Watch: Hyenas bombard wild dogs and steal their meal
While on a recent game drive in South Africa's Londolozi Private Game Reserve, field guide Roddy Watson landed a front-row seat to a scuffle between a...
13 days ago
Animal Behaviour
Rattle battle: Male rattlesnakes filmed wrestling for dominance in California
While exploring the trails in California's Cheeseboro Canyon recently, a mountain biker stumbled across a pair of tussling rattlesnakes and stopped...
22 days ago
Animal Behaviour
In photos: Hyenas and vultures strip an elephant carcass in 36 hours
In just 36 hours, hyenas and vultures reduced an elephant carcass to little more than skin and bones.
one month ago
Animal Behaviour
WATCH: Heron hitches a ride on a hippopotamus
Hippopotamus: it's the only way to travel.
one month ago
Animal Behaviour
Chimpanzee 'nests' shed light on the origins of humanity
Early hominins are thought to have made a new shelter every night, which taught them how to adapt to changing conditions.
one month ago
Animal Behaviour
Scent of a Primate: Lemurs can detect weakness in each other with a simple sniff
Some say the eyes never lie – for Madagascar’s lemurs, it’s their glandular secretions that always tell the truth.
2 months ago
Animal Behaviour
Fisherman films a mountain lion taking a dip in a California lake
When fisherman James Horton launched his boat into California’s Lake McClure recently, he probably wouldn’t have guessed that he would bump into a...
3 months ago
Animal Behaviour
Another case of crocodile cannibalism from Down Under (video)
It's no secret that crocs are partial to the odd bit of cannibalism – as Australian local Bill Yan witnessed first hand on a recent fishing trip...
5 months ago
Animal Behaviour
Keeping pygmy sloths afloat
They do almost everything else in slow motion, but Panama’s pygmy sloths are surprisingly proficient swimmers—and they find relative safety in the...
6 months ago
Animal Behaviour
Rare sighting: Lioness carries newborn cubs across the river
Newborn lion cubs spend their first few weeks of life out of sight, so watching this mother ferrying her offspring to a new denning site is a truly...
7 months ago
Animal Behaviour
Tight-roping in Tasmania: What was this tiger snake doing on a high wire?
This tight-roping tiger snake gets all the style points ...
7 months ago
Animal Behaviour
Sex changes, sperm slaves & ballooning bodies: Spoon worms are really weird
Meet the green spoon worm. It looks like Shrek's gastrointestinal tract, moves like the molten insides of a bubbling lava lamp, and produces a potent...
7 months ago
Sharks
Why were 30 sharks hanging out together in a South African river?
Bull sharks aren't the only shark species that occasionally swims upstream!
7 months ago
