65 m. ago Week in wildlife: a slow loris, a tiny deer and a glamorous dumpling squid

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7 d. ago Week in wildlife: harvest mice, a basking hippo and a hungry egret

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8 d. ago ‘I’m proud of them going out into the world’: Young naturalists on their quest to save harvest mice

Spurred into action by the species’ threatened future, two best friends embarked on a project to release 250 of the animals in DevonDoing somersaults in the corner of a field in Devon this week were the fluffy results of an audacious wildlife project by two 13-year-old girls.Best friends Eva Wishart and Emily Smith had become devoted to harvest mice, and were upset, a couple of years ago, to find out the species is threatened in England due to farming practices and habitat loss. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Week in wildlife: a clumsy fox, swinging orangutang and rescued jaguarundi cub

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2 w. ago Week in wildlife: a clumsy fox, a swinging orangutan and a rescued jaguarundi cub

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3 w. ago Week in wildlife: A wild elephant, a playful dolphin and fighting zebras

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3 w. ago A huge stick insect has been discovered in Australia. Here’s why that’s important | Gwen Pearson

Yes, they can be hard to spot – but this find highlights how little we know about creatures crucial to our ecosystemGwen Pearson is adjunct professor at Michigan State University Department of EntomologyScientists recently announced they had found an enormous new stick insect in Australia. At 41cm in length and weighing 44g, the main question I heard was: “Why didn’t scientists notice something that big before now?”The short answer is: it’s a stick. Stick insects spent over 100m years perfecting their cosplay as leaves, branches and moss. They are diabolically difficult to spot, even with fairly acute human vision. If you disturb a stick insect, its usual response is to fall to the ground and lay still. So now you are looking for a stick lying on the ground among all the other sticks.Gwen Pearson is adjunct faculty at Michigan State University Department of Entomology. She received the Entomological Foundation Medal of Honor for her work in education and science communication Contin...

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4 w. ago Week in wildlife: a very long stick insect and a bouncing bettong

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last month A giant insect that looks like a stick! What is not to love? | First Dog on the Moon

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