Animal facts

Animal ID

How to identify our British Wildlife

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Quiz Deer in the UK

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

Common frog. © Greg Hitchcock

Climate change responsible for spread of frog disease

Red-eyed tree frog. © Kike Calvo/UIG/Getty

Fungus threatens more amphibians than thought

Frog with frogspawn. © Richard Warner/EyeEm/Getty

How to rear froglets in your home

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Birds

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Swift Cambridgeshire. © Ben Andrew/RSPB

Swifts arriving later than usual due to bad weather

Goldfinch. © Edmund Fellowes/BTO

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Fish

Bottlenose dolphin. © Craig Jones/EyeEm/Getty

Quiz Fins and flippers

Aenigmachanna gollum. © Anoop V.K

‘Precious’ new species named after Gollum

Seahorse at Chesil. © Craig Pinder

Seahorses have been stranding on Dorset beaches

Insects and Invertebrates

Beepot

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Hummingbird hawk moth. © Steve Maskell/Butterfly Conservation.

Moths have a bad reputation despite ecological importance

White-tailed bumblebee. © Pieter Haringsma

Bumblebees suffered in the extreme weather of 2018

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Mammals

Orcas. © Steve Truluck

Orca Watch 2019 sees a high diversity of cetaceans

A giant otter in Mato Grosso (Brazil). © Sergio Pitamitz/Getty

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Eastern quoll. © Aussie Ark

Quolls released on mainland Australia

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Reptiles

Mussaurus hatchling skeleton. © Dr Andrew Cuff

Dinosaur species changed locomotion as it grew

Image of a sea serpent seen off Gloucester, Massachusetts in 1817

Sea serpent sightings influenced by marine fossils

An artistic representation of Hypsilophodon. © Trustees of the Natural History Museum

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