Mammals
Fascinating facts about our warm blooded friends - the mammals.
"He was dragged down to the riverbed and was rapidly running out of air…" 8 animals that deliberately their prey underwater to drown them
Drowning as a method of killing prey isn't the most popular in the animal kingdom - but it does happen...
Researchers placed 40 kangaroo carcasses in front of camera traps. This is what happened next
A team of scientists set out to study the behaviour of scavengers in New South Wales, Australia
"Using a pincer movement to prevent their prey’s escape and increasing their speed to the max, the hunters drove them directly onto the beach"
The Galápagos sea lion is the most inquisitive mammal of the Galápagos Islands. Learn more about this endangered species in our guide by experts from the Galapagos Conservation Trust.
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New species of wild cat discovered in Bolivia’s cloud forest
Leopardus tilcayo is the first wild cat species described by scientists in more than a century
3 wild dog brothers just travelled 4,126km across Africa – the longest single journey of any African mammal ever recorded
The dogs repeatedly climbed and descended the Great Rift Valley escarpment, crossed rivers and major roads, and skirted cities to complete their incredible journey.
Starting with a male and female rabbit on 1 January – how many could you have by New Year’s Eve?
Breeding like rabbits is a popular saying, but just how quickly do they breed? We do the math
They look like whiskers, but these are no ordinary whiskers… Here's how seals use them to ‘see’ underwater and track prey
Jon Dunn explains the remarkable ways these seals use their whiskers.
Incredible footage shows moment two grizzly bears collide in Alaskan wilderness
The two male bears were filmed fighting over a female in Denali National Park and Preserve.
Remote cameras catch chimps teaching youngsters how to use tools to hunt
Captured in Senegal, one video appears to show a chimpanzee showing her daughter how to use a stick to extract ants from a nest.
“With enough food, they will just have more pups.” Coyotes are moving into Seattle – and they're unlikely to leave
New research shows the US city has far higher coyote numbers than in wilder parts of Washington State.
"She may eat parts of her own arms to essentially accelerate her own demise." 8 females with the worst, most horrible, lives ever
In the animal kingdom, it's often females that wield the power - but that doesn't mean they have it easy.
"It will eat approximately 80% of its body weight every day"
The water vole is the largest of the vole species found in the UK, and can be confused with the similarly-sized brown rat.
Which is the world’s most numerous mammal – apart from humans?
With the human population count now at over 8 billion, we are the winners. But which mammal comes next?
What's the difference between humans and apes? And when did humans first appear?
We may be part of the same overarching group as chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans, but there are lots of things that set us apart from these other great apes…
"Domestication proper came much later, in Egypt about 4,000 years ago." How we domesticated the cat
Our relationship with the African wildcat is ancient, but our attitudes to its domesticated descendants, the pet cat,have been in constant flux.
It has the legs of a supermodel, can run at 40mph and leap 3m high – yet is just 50cm tall. Meet one of the world's weirdest, yet most beautiful, cats
Meet the beautiful serval cat, a leggy wild cat that roams sub-Saharan Africa
"They're more closely related to woolly mammoths than they are to African elephants…" Just how different are African, forest and Asian elephants?
These huge creatures are far more different than you might think
“It’s an effective ambush. If not impaled, the wounded animal tries to flee but is promptly grabbed by its assailant and swiftly chomped, head first.”
In south-eastern Senegal live female chimps that use spears to prize slumbering bush babies from tree cavities, as zoologist and broadcaster Lucy Cooke explains.
"She repeatedly kicked his head to prevent an attack." Kick-ass female zebra saves foal from infanticidal male
New research is uncovering the matriarchal secrets of zebras – including unprecedented behaviour, says Lucy Cooke
Just how many species of human have there been?
We aren’t the only humans to have called Earth ‘home’; before us there were dozens of human species and like us they travelled far and wide…
Think you know your family? Well, think again. You might call yourself a Jones or a Patel, but at heart you're a great ape
Learn all about great apes in this expert guide from Nakedi Maputla from African Wildlife Foundation
Why can't polar bears live in Antarctica?
Yes polar bears could live in Antarctica, but the results would be disastrous...
I woke up to a bear cub pulling at my sleeping bag – and then its mother and sister arrived...
Wildlife photographer Danny Green talks sinking ships and battles for sleeping bags
"He was grabbed by its powerful forelimbs. In the ensuing ‘embrace’ he suffered multiple puncture wounds from its razor-sharp foreclaws"
Can you be hugged to death by an anteater?
