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Put your best foot forward to help animal conservation

15 November 2017

Animal footprints can help in the fight to save endangered species. Wild Track would like your help to collect images and develop its footprint identification technique

The ingenious priest who discovered how bats 'see' in the dark

15 November 2017

Almost 150 years before anyone recorded their ultrasound calls, Lazzaro Spallanzani’s cunning yet gruesome experiments revealed how bats navigate in darkness

Porpoises twist laws of physics to aim their focused sonar beams

15 November 2017

Porpoises scrunch up their heads to direct their sonar beams and keep prey within "sight". Understanding how they point sound could help us design better sonar

Prairie vole partners split up if one drinks more than the other

14 November 2017

Prairie voles mate for life, but the bond is likely to break down if one partner drinks more alcohol than the other

Human arrivals wiped out the Caribbean’s giant ground sloths

10 November 2017

Many giant mammals in the Americas have died out but it has been hard to say whether humans or natural events were responsible. Now, in the Caribbean at least, we know

Watch a monkey floss its teeth with a bird feather

10 November 2017

Nicobar long-tailed macaques have learned to use an array of tools, from wrapping prickly food in leaves to avoid getting hurt, to using bird feathers to floss their teeth

Giant coconut crab sneaks up on a sleeping bird and kills it

9 November 2017

Coconut crabs were thought to be purely opportunistic scavengers, but these huge arthropods are actually active predators that may dominate their island homes