BBC Wildlife - UK (2021-12)

discoverwildlife.com BBC WILDLIFE 41 As winter descends on Wapusk National Park, Daisy Gilardini braves the chill to capture the ...

Fight club Two young males engage in a bout of boisterous sparring. Play-fighting is normal behaviour, serving as practice for t ...

Polar peril The polar bear is classified as vulnerable by the IUCN. The worldwide population is estimated to be between 22,000 a ...

Feast and famine A bear wanders the shoreline, not in Wapusk, but on Somerset Island in Nunavut. Scientists have identified 19 s ...

discoverwildlife.com BBC WILDLIFE 45 Vole in a hole A vole scuttles out from under the snow to investigate a polar bear family. ...

Follow the bear Prints in the snow are one way to track polar bears. Only females can be fitted with radio collars; the males’ n ...

discoverwildlife.com BBC WILDLIFE 47 Leaving home Cubs leave the den in March or April, but need time to transition to the outsi ...

Family dynamics Cubs stay with their mother until the age of two and a half to three years old, with females nursing the youngst ...

A warming world Wapusk means ‘white bear’ in the local Cree language. Established in 1996, the national park protects 11,475km2 ...

50 BBC WILDLIFE December 2021 TikTok the marmoset (right) with his adoptive father Ronnie at Monkey World. He arrived here after ...

C urrently, if I so wished, I could walk into my local pet shop and buy a monkey. I wouldn’t need to get a licence, there would ...

52 BBC WILDLIFE December 2021 which is listed on the Dangerous Wild Animals Act list of species. It is this list that until now ...

Partly due to this kind of content, baby monkeys are at a premium. TikTok was taken from his mother at an age when, in the wild, ...

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FRIGATES O Welcome to northern Peru – and the floating mangrove island that a colony of magnificent frigatebirds calls home Word ...

56 BBC WILDLIFE December 2021 hen it comes to wildlife, Peru is a special place. It’s one of the most biodiverse countries on th ...

discoverwildlife.com BBC WILDLIFE 57 FRIGATES O Lying just south of the border with Ecuador, La Isla de Los Pájaros lies in the ...

58 BBC WILDLIFE December 2021 these noisy seabirds. It didn’t take me long to realise that photographing frigates involves a lot ...

Competition for mates is fierce and, besides fighting, male frigatebirds try to catch the attention of a female by singing and i ...

60 BBC WILDLIFE December 2021 over any branches that fall into the sea and will steal from other nests. The fights can be intens ...