Animal facts

Animal ID

How to identify our British Wildlife

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How well do you know your UK deer species?

Red fox standing in the garden with flowers near the house in a suburb of London. © DG Wildlife/Getty

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How to identify animal droppings

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How to identify pond wildlife

Eurasian otter. © Ed Evans/Getty

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Mink or otter? How to tell the difference

Brown rat. © Mike Lane/Getty

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How to tell the difference between a brown rat and a water vole

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How to identify slugs and snails

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Amphibians

Mountain chicken frog. © Durrell/ZSL

Safe haven created for Critically Endangered frog

A malnourished frog. © Ministry of Housing and Urbanism of Chile

Dramatic rescue mission for rare frogs

Common frog. © Greg Hitchcock

Climate change responsible for spread of frog disease

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Birds

Great blue heron. © Jocelyn Anderson

11 striking facts about great blue herons

A cassowary roaming in a rainforest area.

Everything you need to know about the southern cassowary

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Penguin wins New Zealand’s Bird of the Year

Fish

European Eel, Anguilla Anguilla, single head shot of fish in reeds. Warwickshire, August 2014

Eel recorded embarking on its epic migratory voyage

Manta feeding in trash Indo - Copyright Andrea Marshall, Marine Megafauna Foundation

Ocean giants consuming microplastics when feeding

Manta ray.

Top shark and ray traders identified

Insects and Invertebrates

Krill, the foundation of Antarctica's marine food chain, swim in a tank on Palmer Station, in Antarctica.

Insects & Invertebrates

The lowdown on krill

CLOSED – Win a copy of Life Cycles of British & Irish Butterflies

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Northern Ireland’s bees under threat of extinction

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Mammals

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Win a beautiful polar bear necklace

Harbour porpoise ready for postmortem at ZSL (c) CSIP-ZSL

Young porpoises in the UK are ingesting toxic milk

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Solenodon genome reveals mammal venom evolution

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Reptiles

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10 amazing facts about gharials

Diamondback terrapin. © USD/Jenny Mastanuono via Wikimedia

8 interesting facts about diamondback terrapins

A close up portrait of the gharial hatchling in the Babai river at Dhanuse in the Bardia National Park

Hope for gharials in Nepal