As the sun rises over the Dead Sea, male rocky badgers in Israel crawl out of their dark burrows and begin to sing. To the human ear, tones sound like a cross between the crackling of a hyena and the scratching of chalk on a chalkboard. But for the female rock hyrax, each chorus is … Read more
In the spring of 2019, Tracy Simon was up at night hearing a deep roar from cracking ice. The iceberg on which she slept at the foot of Mount Everest was moving under her tent. Simon, a molecular biologist with the Wildlife Conservation Society in New York, spent three weeks on the iceberg. She wanted … Read more
Gambling is part of it.© Photo jjfoto / Vincent de Vries You might be wondering what’s the most important thing on a Thursday afternoon when you sit down with Arnold Staines in his 30s. He leans on a wheelie box filled with shavings of snow and nearly three hundred cans of beer. He laughs, ‘We … Read more
Now that the environmental permit has been issued, all the lights are green to build an eco-product in Halle above the Brussels Ring at the height of Hallerbos. So the habitat of animals in Hallerbos is much larger. The construction will replace the existing bridge over the Brussels Ring. Not only animals, but also pedestrians … Read more
flight fuel Godwit Rosso (Limosa lapponica) is closely related to the Dutch national bird, the common black-tailed bird (L. limosa). But when the latter has a clear preference for freshwater areas, the ribbon-tailed godfather lives more in the salty environment. Both winter in West Africa. However, the reddish subspecies breeds in northern Siberia, and is … Read more
Gambling is part of it.© Photo jjfoto / Vincent de Vries You might be wondering what’s most important on a Thursday afternoon when you sit down with Arnold Staines in his 30s. He leans on a wheelie box filled with shavings of snow and nearly three hundred cans of beer. He laughs, ‘We eventually see … Read more
Gambling is part of it.© Photo jjfoto / Vincent de Vries You might be wondering what’s most important on a Thursday afternoon when you sit down with Arnold Staines in his 30s. He leans on a wheelie box filled with shavings of snow and nearly three hundred cans of beer. He laughs, ‘We eventually see … Read more
Gambling is part of it.© Photo jjfoto / Vincent de Vries You might be wondering what’s most important on a Thursday afternoon when you sit down with Arnold Staines in his 30s. He leans on a wheelie box filled with shavings of snow and nearly three hundred cans of beer. He laughs, ‘We eventually see … Read more
“The shelter is really full,” says Audrey Clausen, director of the rodent center at IJmuidense Heerenduinweg. This means that anyone who wants to donate a rabbit or a rodent will be put on a long waiting list and must be patient. Stray animals are still taken care of. But with about forty rabbits and so … Read more
Gambling is part of it.© Photo jjfoto / Vincent de Vries You might be wondering what’s most important on a Thursday afternoon when you sit down with Arnold Staines in his 30s. He leans on a wheelie box filled with shavings of snow and nearly three hundred cans of beer. He laughs, ‘We eventually see … Read more