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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WildTIMES • What’s happening right now

Follow the crowd • Striped marlin come together to feast on speedy schools of baitfish in the Pacific

A dose of sunshine • The bright brimstone butterfly is a welcome sight in early spring

Traffic noise makes rural robins more aggressive • New study finds country-dwelling robins get feistier in response to human-made noise pollution

Hen harrier breeding project takes flight • The raptors are to be released onto Salisbury Plain in an attempt to revive the bird of prey in southern England

The vampire diaries • Spot a strange parasite of tree roots this month

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Melodies to inspire the arts • Listen for the enduring songs of skylarks and see their spiralling flight

ORIGIN OF PIECES • A male’s nipples

GILLIAN BURKE • “Law is arguably the most powerful tool for protecting the Earth”

SNOW SCENE

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Roseman Adams • Community leader on the recovery of the ‘Polaroid’ gecko on Union Island in the Caribbean

Hosts with the most • Parasitised wolves are more likely to become leaders of the pack as their behaviour is forced to change

Garrarnawun bush tomato

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Lost & Found • Stejneger’s scoter, Firth of Forth

CROSS ROADS

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Satellites track dinner time dash • New research could help ease conflicts between elephants and people

COLLECTIVE NOUNS • A mustering of storks

Feast of plenty • Find holly berries and you could spot a mistle thrush defending what’s left of its precious food stash

FEMALE OF THE SPECIES • Lucy Cooke on a hammerhead cloning to survive extinction

Sunny side up • Yellow coltsfoot is one of the first wildflowers to emerge in spring

POO CORNER • European badger

MARK CARWARDINE • “COP15 is likely to be another grave disappointment”

Invisibility croak • Sleeping glassfrogs perfect their transparency by hiding their blood in a mirror-coated liver

THE BOXER • Bag a ringside seat to see battling brown hares during their mating season

CLOSE TO YOU • A small, parasitic pea-sized crab that’s most content living inside its bivalve host

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CUB SCOUT • The brown bear mothers of coastal Alaska work hard to feed, teach and protect their young offspring

“It’s such a simple idea, why haven’t we been doing it for years?” • How nature could help fix our flooding problems

Smart water tanks • Computer-controlled containers to slow the flow

SURVIVOR • Six years ago, a poacher’s snare robbed a lioness of her leg. Against the odds, she lives on in Kafue National Park, Zambia.

ISLANDS OF ADVENTURE • If you crave a remote island paradise but don't want to fly, there are white-sand beaches and extraordinary wildlife a ferry ride from Cornwall

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Q&A • Email your questions to wildquestions@immediate.co.uk

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