London Zoo faces
fight to survive
As the menagerie nurses a multi-million-pound hole in its budget and lockdown keeps visitors away, the keepers are sad and anxious
London Zoo faces
In the winter of 1890, a snowy owl, one of the strikingly beautiful predators that make their home in the Arctic tundra was spotted in Central Park
Researchers said that the blue whale song that crackled through the team’s underwater recordings was unlike any they had heard
The small apes were once widespread across much of Asia. But rampant deforestation and ruthless hunting has greatly reduced their numbers and habitat
Forests should be kept off limits to tourists for a particular period every year, according to a report
As like as domesticated dogs, kangaroos can learn to communicate with humans by using their gaze to 'point' and ask for help, researchers say
Crickets with quieter voices or tiny bodies will fashion mini-megaphones out of leaves to amplify their calls, coaxing females into mating with them
The lone lion couple in the zoo are past their reproduction age
It is only the second known case in which large felines have contracted coronavirus
Last summer’s bushfires, which Prime Minister Scott Morrison has dubbed Australia’s “black summer”, also killed 33 people and razed over 24m hectares in the country
