Acrobatic Bengal Kittens Learn To Hunt | Wonderful World of Puppies | BBC Earth
One mischievous little Bengal named Ned is refining his newfound dexterity. Every pounce on his sister dolt is honing his ambush skills. Our kittens are perfecting their timing and learning how to gauge the distance between them and their prey. Since birth, Ned and his siblings have never left the safety of this box, and […]
How Mammals Revolutionised Motherhood | Natural World: Wild Mothers and Babies | BBC Earth
Mammals revolutionized. Child care for. A few primitive mammals still have eggs. But when a kid listen, platypus emerge, they feed directly from their mother’s skin. All mammals stopped on milk sucking is one of Mother Nature’s great inventions with food on tap. Fathers lose another job. They’re no help. Instead, a remarkable bond forms […]
Why people are choosing to quit social media | BBC Ideas
I’m not sure that other people on the Tube would be happy, but I look at other people more. I like to observe, have a look at what someone’s wearing, you know, imagine what kind of person they would be. Just try and live in the moment a bit more. That’s right. No Facebook, no […]
Rescuing a Stray Kitten | Wonderful World of Puppies | BBC Earth
Not all kittens, however, are lucky enough to find themselves at the heart of a loving family in this rescue shelter in Wiltshire. Is sassy. No one knows exactly when she was born, but she’s estimated to be around 13 weeks old. A month ago, she was found living on the streets dangerously underweight and […]
Kitten Steals Treats When Left Home Alone | Wonderful World of Puppies | BBC Earth
But it’s not just when we’re asleep that our kittens have to entertain themselves. It’s only natural for owners to leave their feline friends home alone from time to time. And Rory, who’s now seven months old, is about to face a whole hour by himself for the very first time. As long as there’s […]
How to solve the world’s plastic problem | BBC Ideas
Plastic is incredible. It helps send fresh food around the world, keeps us warm (or cool), and dry, and enables medicines like vaccines to be delivered safely at scale to billions of people. But it’s also increasingly in our soil, our oceans and the stomachs of birds, mammals and fish. In fact, the amount of […]
Why do we binge-watch? | BBC Ideas
I can easily watch an entire series in a single day. Two days. Ten hours of television a day, and I didn’t even like it. Bingeing started by accident. Netflix had realized that loads of people were gravitating towards watching shows in bulk, be that shows that you’ve seen before – Friends, Seinfeld, Law & […]
Mother Chimpanzee Teaches Baby to Catch Termites | Natural World: Wild Mother and Babies | BBC Earth
families have a new role to provide emotional support for mother and baby nothing in the world is more important or brings Greater Joy baby chimpanzees spend years learning about each other and their Traditions families are the schools in central Africa chimps crack nuts with the trick is passed mother to baby down the […]
The Surprising Benefits of Whale Poo | Our Planet Earth | BBC Earth
SAround 90 species of whale call our oceans home, with many of them regularly making vast migrations across our planet, some the equivalent of halfway around the world. As they move through the depths, they play key roles in the health of the ecosystems that they visit. Whales dive deep to feed, picking up those […]
Greatest Fights in the Animal Kingdom Part 3 | BBC Earth
From iconic scenes to unusual contests, the animal world is full of face-offs. For family or territory, these determined animals won’t go down without a fight…