BBC Wildlife Magazine - August 2023

In this issue

Hidden Britain
The ‘translucent pasty’ that is otherwise known as the Portugese man o’ war.

Portfolio: Australia’s shearwaters
Striking photos reveal the effects of plastic debris on flesh-footed shearwaters.

Walking with the world’s biggest dinosaur
Features editor Sarah McPherson takes a trip to the Natural History Museum..

Throwing shade

Jungles of bracken provide a refuge for roe deer

1 min

Crossing continents

Is the recent reintroduction of cheetahs triumph or an to India a conservation ill-conceived distraction?

1 min

Saved by the harebell

This late-season arrival brings a burst of blue to hillsides and verges

1 min

Roary Neat

Freshwater Habitats Trust volunteer on looking after rare wetland plants for a reintroduction project in Oxfordshire

1 min

Kangaroos haven't always hopped

Hopping as a method of high-speed endurance wasn't used by all large kangaroos

1 min

De-horning black rhinos is changing their behaviour

Given the scant evidence that removing the horns of rhinos reduces poaching, is it worth it?

1 min

Underwater orchestra

Tune in to the lesser water boatman performing an extraordinary chorus

1 min

SPLISH SPLASH

Watch these superbly adapted raptors plunging for fish to feed their young

3 mins

SAIL AWAY

The drifting siphonophore with a killer reputation that paralyses its prey

2 mins

MAKE YOURSELF AT HOME

On the edge of a remote mountain slope in northern India, a secretive cat becomes part of village life

8 mins

PLASTIC PERIL

Intimate photos of flesh-footed shearwaters reveal fascinating behaviour - and research into a growing threat

3 mins

LIVING IT LARGE

Patagotitan is likely the biggest dinosaur to have walked the Earth. Here's how it lived its supersized life.

7 mins

THE POWER OF PONDS

Our farmland ponds have vanished, but new initiatives are bringing back these biodiversity powerhouses

6 mins

HOPE SPRINGS

Manatee habitat was threatened in Florida but is being restored, one blade of grass at a time

7 mins

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