BBC Wildlife Magazine

BBC Wildlife Magazine is a celebration of the natural world, featuring all the latest discoveries, news and views on wildlife, conservation and environmental issues. With strong broadcasting links, authoritative journalism and award-winning photography, BBC Wildlife Magazine is essential reading for anyone with a passion for wildlife who wants to understand, experience and enjoy nature more.

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It’s time to big-up the joys of being small

BBC Wildlife Magazine

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wild TIMES • What’s happening right now

It’s getting brighter for beavers • England is one step closer to the celebrated rodent’s return to the wild

“I spent days in a floating hide”

Sweet tooth • Worker wasps search for a sugar hit in their final days

Elephants at an advantage • The key to preventing cancer in humans may be found in elephant genes

Flying back from the brink of extinction • One of the world’s rarest parrots – the Spix's macaw – is now ready to start breeding

Hanging out in hedges • Late summer and early autumn is the ideal time to look for the pine cone-like flowers of female hops

Gunpowder spot

Fuelling up for a journey • Head to the coast to spot willow warblers before they head south

A swallowtail’s osmeterium

GILLIAN BURKE • “I’ve lost faith that science alone can turn the tide on nature loss”

UNFUSSY EATERS

10 animals named after food • Evolution has produced some curious and comical-looking creatures, including some that look uncannily like something we’d eat

Beneath the surface

Beth Reinke • A professor of biology who is increasing our understanding of how ageing works in the wild

Singing in tune • Study reveals humpback whales can accurately learn a song from a different humpback population

Giant water lily

Snapshot

Columbus crab, St Martin’s

GETTING INTO A SCRAPE

Bridge of hope

Unpicking a lime pickle • Scientists have gathered new evidence to try and solve an insect mystery

Nye of pheasants

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Deep purple • Clusters of dark elderberries provide a welcome feast for many bird species

Beavers branch out

Life is no picnic

Lucy Cooke on the most famous ocean hermaphrodites

Leaving UK shores • This month, look out for migrating common terns

Red fox

Not your average bear • Biologists discover a unique population of polar bears in southeast Greenland that do things differently

In alien territory

SPINNING AROUND SPIDER WEBS • Dewy autumn mornings showcase the beautiful, intricate work of our eight-legged friends

TOP FIVE PLACES

LOOK CLOSER

STAYIN’ ALIVE BROAD-CLAWED PORCELAIN CRAB • The tiny filter-feeding rockpool dweller that will lose a limb in order to live another day

Going with the flow

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PUFFIN SUMMER • Every year, tens of thousands of puffins return to the Welsh isle of Skomer to mate, nest and raise their young

How many leaves are on a tree? • To learn more about how trees can need to know their leaf area. mitigate climate change, scientists So how do you work that out?

Getting the measure of trees • Carbon and pollution absorption among different species

CROCODILE ISLAND • Welcome to Lago Enriquillo: the undisputed crocodile capital of the Caribbean

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