Popular Science

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These beautiful beasts come close to mimicking teen rebellion. Calves spend a decade with their mothers in female-dominated groups—and ladies stay there–but adolescent boys ditch mom for rambunctious crews of bros. In their 20s, they often downsize t

Australian Geographic

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In May, we brought you the good news that glossy black-cockatoo chicks had begun hatching among the burnt landscapes of Kangaroo Island. Here’s what you had to say: That is fantastic news, new life aft er all the devastation. Great work by Mother Nat

BBC Countryfile Magazine

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Screams that split open evenings with all the energy of a cat’s claws down a blackboard: that can only be a fox, raging at its own kind with ear-shattering but bloodless zeal. The fox’s loudest cry is so improbable, such a poor fit for its delicate f

Sporting Gun

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• If you’re trying to deal with a fox that’s in an awkward location, try to lure it out into open ground. A caller is the most immediate solution but if that doesn’t work, a longer-term answer is to put some bait (cat food, roadkill, or whatever) dow

BBC Science Focus Magazine

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WHAT DID THEY DO? Dr Neil Jordan, a biologist from the University of New South Wales, Australia, painted eyes on the rear ends of cattle in the Okavango Delta region of Botswana. WHY DID THEY DO THAT? After hearing reports of a group of local farmers

Shooting Times & Country

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Foxes can be taught not to eat partridge eggs, according to scientists. The Spanish team set up 1,329 dummy partridge nests and injected the eggs in them with a foul-tasting but harmless chemical called thiram. At the same time they fitted GPS tracki

Shooting Times & Country

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Defra is on course to have drafts of its new general licences for England completed in October and published in November, with the licences coming into force on 1 January 2021. The licences, which allow control of abundant pest and predator species,

Field & Stream

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→ Doug Wiles, Wisconsin bear hunter and owner of Big Timber Outdoors, says that changing food sources can make killing an opening-week bruin tough. But he’s got three tricks to help you. “In September, the bears’ dietary needs are changing ahead of h

Photography Week

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While captivating behaviour such as a fighting or hunting can really elevate wildlife images, don’t forget to think about the more subtle, less-pronounced behaviour, as it can often still have a big impact. Even a photo of something as grand as a lio

How It Works

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As the soft, squishy, pink things you first encounter when you’re playing outside as a kid, worms appear extremely fragile. With a soft outer skin and little protection, when you first saw them bury themselves out of sight and into the ground you may

KRASH

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PS. NOT ALL OF THESE PETS ARE LEGAL IN AUSTRALIA. This odd pet won’t chew up your favourite shoes like your dog and are guaranteed to creep out your mum. If you can get your skin to stop crawling, they like to climb on you too. Related to the gui

Babybug

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I line them up from head to tail,lion, tiger, monkey, whale,alligator, penguin too,elephant, and kangaroo.Can you see what I have made?Romping, stomping zoo parade! text © 2019 by Galen Goodwin Longstreth, art © 2019 by Bonnie Lui ■

SA Hunter/Jagter

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In the bushveld the buffalo thorn is small & deciduous, and in the coastal forests they are large and evergreen. The Afrikaans name “blinkblaar-wag-’n-bietjie” alludes to the shiny light-green leaves and the hooked thorns. “Wag-’n-bietjie” refers to

Amateur Photographer

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Using food to attract animals is a tried-and-tested photographic technique, yet it has started to become a highly contentious ethical issue. It’s not always straightforward, and views may change over time and as you mature as a photographer, but luck

BBC Wildlife Magazine

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A male tufted golden orb weaver has eyes – eight of them, to be precise – for only one lady in his life. And that’s despite the fact that his beloved could eat him up at any moment. But new research shows that he has a cunning ploy to increase his su

Field & Stream

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Today is the opening day of hunting season. And if it isn’t, just wait a few days. Maybe a week at most. Either way, get ready. It’s funny. We tend to think of opening day as a single date on the calendar, when in fact, more than 2,000 different hunt

Country Life

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IF Sir Winston Churchill’s statue had happened to glance downwards on March 29, it would have been in for a shock. For the first time in centuries, three wild boar were spotted in Parliament Square, rootling at the sculpture’s foot. Staff at Westmins

You South Africa

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THIS odd little creature has been called “the slug that eats the sun” or the “solar-powered slug”. That’s because the eastern emerald eelysia, scientific name Elysia chlorotsica, is a slug that’s not only green and shaped like a leaf, but just li----

Country Life

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Two eagles under the care of the South of Scotland Golden Eagle Project appear to be exhibiting courtship behaviours. The two birds, named Skan (male) and Beaky (female) have been flying close together and playfighting, the first time such behaviours

BBC Wildlife Magazine

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The reproductive potential of these fecund mammals preoccupied the Italian mathematician Fibonacci as far back as 1201. Pondering the problem in his Book of Calculations, he came up with the Fibonacci Sequence, still used today. His answer was 466. H

Trapper & Predator Caller

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BROUGHT TO YOU BY pursuitchannel.com MAR 6-8: West Virginia Trappers Association Annual Spring Fur Sale and Rendezvous. Gilmer County Recreation Center, 1365 Sycamore Run Road, Glenville, WV. Fur consignment begins 9 a.m. Friday, continues through Sa

Country Life

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ABOUT this time of year, some of us become quite preoccupied with the ability (or lack thereof) of toads to cross roads safely (Country Mouse, March 3). But the collision of cars and migratory crossings are not the only problem these amphibians face.

Getaway

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How do you study the diet of a flying bird? Well, first you have to catch it. This necessitated wading out into Sowa Pan and hammering posts into the pan. Then, by means of nylon lines strung between poles, and loops we were able to hook their feet.

Sporting Rifle

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March is a bit of a strange month where shooting is concerned. For a start, it sees the end of the shooting of all female species of deer, so those with cull targets will have little time left to get the job done. This year has been a tough one for s

The Field

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The Essex with Farmers and Union Hunt – a merger of The Essex with the Essex Farmers and Union – has bred 12½ couple of hounds following a successful first season. The hunt used bitches and dogs from The Essex to maintain Old English bloodlines. Houn

Boys' Life

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Bears are in the third grade, and they get to learn how to use a pocketknife! Don’t worry: You’ll get lots of practice before you start carving for real. Bears also learn how to track animals in the wild. They might learn how to use all kinds of diff

BBC Countryfile Magazine

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By: David Rosen Where: Dovercourt Beach, Essex “Taken with an exposure time of 165 seconds, the image has a singular and serene nature. Just a lone lighthouse sitting in a sea of calmness.” By: Claire Inglis Where: Hucking, Kent “This peacock but

BBC Wildlife Magazine

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In the Farne Islands, black-headed gulls were attempting to force puffins to drop the sandeels they had collected for their young. Other gulls waited by the puffin burrows to ambush those that dodged the airborne encounter. It was a good year for san

Outdoor Life

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Like most turkey hunters, I focus mainly on the early-morning hours. after all, who doesn’t like to call in and shoot a gobbler straight off the roost? However, last season I was reminded that longbeards can be killed at any time of day. Of course, t

SA Country Life

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1. A secretive bird much sought-after by twitchers, the White-backed Night-Heron ( Witrugnagreier ) is, as its name suggests, active after dark. 2. Heard more often than seen, the shy, bulbulsized Eastern Nicator ( Geelvleknikator ) has an interesti