BBC Wildlife - April 2025

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Special report
Asia’s yellow-legged hornet has a toehold in Britain but we’re keeping it at bay – for now.

Mike Dilger’s wildlife spectacles
When it comes to impressing the females, peacocks know how to put on a show.

Nick Baker’s hidden world
The seldom-seen subterranean insect that swims under our feet.

Fisher kings
Some of the world’s biggest birds gather to feast at a tranquil lake in Greece.

Rise of the killer hornets

Asia's yellow-legged hornet has a toehold in Britain but we're keeping it at bay - for now

6 mins

7 nature encounters for the month ahead

WITH NATURALIST AND AUTHOR BEN HOARE

3 mins

GILLIAN BURKE

“Losing sight of this version of the human story hurts us all in the end”

2 mins

FEMALE OF THE SPECIES

These ladies have a voice – and a taste for vandalism

2 mins

SHAKE IT OFF

When it comes to impressing the females, peacocks know how to put on a show

3 mins

CIRCLE IN THE SAND

The seldom-seen subterranean insect that swims beneath our feet

3 mins

SMALL BEGINNINGS

Without the egg, animals as we know them - including us – could not have evolved and flourished. This is the rise of the egg

8 mins

IN PURSUIT OF PARADISE

An adventure in Papua New Guinea to seek some of the world's most incredible birds is the culmination of a 40-year dream

7 mins

TO CATCH A CAIMAN

Studying caimans in the Amazon can help the species onservation - but you have to catch one first

7 mins

ZOO QUEST

Many people believe zoos have an important role to play in conserving species. We investigate if this really justifies keeping animals in captivity

8 mins

Does anything live at the top of Mount Everest?

TERRESTRIAL HABITATS DON'T GET ANY higher than the summits of Himalayan peaks. And Himalayan peaks don't get any taller than Everest.

6 mins

Electroreception: a shocking sense

ELECTRICITY IS THE RESULT OF interactions between objects with electric charge - and batteries aren't the only things that can be charged.

2 mins

ALL YOU EVER NEEDED TO KNOW ABOUT Pufferfish

PUFFERFISH ARE TOXIC WATER 'balloons' that know how to defend themselves against predators.

3 mins

SNAP-CHAT

Derek Nielsen on charming chimps, wise elephants and ants in his pants

3 mins

Garden habitats for birds

I AM BELATEDLY MAKING MY WAY THROUGH the February issue and have just read James Fair’s piece about feeding birds.

3 mins

Super-strong animals

Some of the world's mightiest creatures, from crabs to crocs

2 mins

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