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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Wild TIMES • The latest news, photography and seasonal wildlife highlights

Vulture nests act as time capsules • Discarded dwellings hold troves of human artefacts and environmental information

Feisty bats hunt like lions • Winged mammals use a ‘hang and wait’ strategy to take down large prey

Ocean goes on tour • Acclaimed film touring the UK, backed by live orchestra and choir

TURTLE TURNAROUND

Orcas killing young sharks • Juvenile great whites are easy prey for orca pod

Failing to take root • Vast amounts of money are spent on tree planting schemes, yet nature can do the job for free

wild JANUARY • 7 nature encounters for the month ahead

WILD IN THE CITY • In Anchorage, Alaska, you’re never too far from a moose – even when you’re shopping

KATE BRADBURY • “The door is opening on to an unknown. It’s exciting, if scary”

COLD DAY IN THE SUN • The most numerous bird on Antarctica, the Adélie is well adapted to its harsh home

ANTS INVASION • The delicate alliance between shrub, fungus and tiny forest guardians

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WELCOME TO THE RIFT • For two decades, Shem Compion has explored the epic landscapes of Africa’s Great Rift Valley, capturing the spirit of the place where human life began

WALKING WITH WOLVES • Meet the Opoyastin pack, the charismatic wild wolves who inhabit the icy wilderness of Canada’s Kaska Coast

“More than half of all animal life exists in a parasitic relationship, and all life lives in symbiosis” • Our survival depends on species evolving to live together – but some relationships take dark turns

THE KOALA PARADOX • Koalas, a much-loved icon, are both endangered and abundant in Australia. We look at the big picture across an even bigger country

INTO THE PLASTISPHERE • A unique synthetic ecosystem is evolving in our oceans – welcome to the plastisphere

Q&A

Can animals predict natural disasters?

Does a cuckoo know it’s a cuckoo?

Can mammals shrink?

Do whales drink?

Are animals able to dream?

ALL YOU EVER NEEDED TO KNOW ABOUT THE Fennec fox

Photo CLUB

SNAP-CHAT • Richard Birchett on magical merlins, wily coyotes and charging deer

The crossword

SPOT THE DIFFERENCE

Orca manoeuvres

Cheetah comeback

“I was terrified the elephant would ram us” • African elephant in Kenya