Lion mating ritual up close | Wildlife: Raw & Uncut - Earth Touch …
Lion mating ritual up close. It's not a behaviour often captured on film, but the Earth Touch crew recently got the chance to film African lions mating in the wild! When it comes lion mating ...
Top 10: Iconic African trees | Natural World | Earth Touch News
Sep 2, 2014 · Quiver tree (Aloe dichotoma) Because of its distinctive beauty, the quiver tree has been named one of Namibia's national plants. The thick tree is actually a giant aloe in disguise, and has soft ...
Homosexual Giraffes Do What Comes Naturally
At any moment in time, one in every 20 male giraffes can be found amorously necking with another male. Or so says one study into giraffe homosexual behaviour. You probably wouldn't have learned ...
VIDEO: This is what the fox screams - Earth Touch News
May 25, 2016 · The screech in the video is known as a "vixen's cry", and you'll hear it most often around springtime, when foxes are out luring mates. It's also used later in the season when unwanted visitors ...
Meet Pearl, one of the world’s rare albino alligators
Feb 2, 2017 · But recently, one of the gators, a ten-year-old female named Pearl, has been taking the spotlight. Pearl owes her fame – and her name – to the genetic mutation that makes her whole body pure ...
Need to identify a fossil? There's an app for that
Oct 20, 2015 · The new app, developed by researchers from t he University of Kansas, lets anyone with an iPhone or iPad discover and classify fossils with the eye of a palaeontologist. The team wanted to create ...
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Mud-puddling … the butterfly's dirty little secret
Mar 26, 2014 · The salts and amino acids absorbed during mud-puddling play various roles in butterfly ecology, ethology and physiology. Males seem to benefit more from the sodium uptake as it aids in ...
This is not a snake, it's one of the best mimics in nature
Jun 16, 2016 · Aptly known as the "snake mimic caterpillar", what you're looking at is the early life stage of a rather inconspicuous moth in the family Sphingidae. "When disturbed, this larva expands the first ...
Lioness kills a young wild dog in rarely seen attack (VIDEO)
Sep 23, 2016 · Three safari guides with African Bush Camps and some of their guests witnessed a lioness kill a young African wild dog near Kanga Pan. The big cat's attack was brazen: the lioness stalked close to ...