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A veteran pair of ospreys return home to a Connecticut saltmarsh. Over one summer they must battle their enemies, withstand the elements, and hunt hundreds of fish, all to raise the next generation of these consummate sea hawks.

A story of surprise and revelation. A wildlife cameraman spends his time during the coronavirus pandemic lockdown filming the bees in his urban garden and discovers the many diverse species and personalities that exist in this insect family.

Robert Full, a professor at UC Berkeley, takes inspiration from squirrel movement and acrobatics for robotic technology.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwsH19excrk   Are dolphins as intelligent as we think they are or do they just seem that way?

It’s not what you think.  In an age of climate change and widespread environmental angst, with new threats like murder hornets making headlines, the title of this essay might come across as some sort of death notice.  After all, many insect populations are indeed declining, ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ny3G0z87ow   Sorry to ruin your childhood, but lion society doesn’t have a king. What can we learn about this big cat’s intelligence?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDHHqe7Ay-Q   Watch an osprey family in the Long Island Sound. The chicks were born in June 2021 and are being tenderly cared for by their parents. Filmmaker Jacob Steinberg from CosmoVision Media has been following and filming these osprey parents for several years and ...

Ecologist Rodrigo Medellin set up remote cameras in a bat “nursery.” The cameras capture a behavior that has never been filmed before: a mother giving birth.

To track the migration patterns and distances of the lesser long-nosed bats, Ecologist Rodrigo Medellin coats the bats he catches in harmless UV dust, which they lick off and digest. The glowing dust passes through their system, and by tracking the glowing bat droppings, he ...