wild animals

The goal of programmes like Zoo Quest was to capture wild animals for zoo collections, the accepted practice at the time.

Scientists have found a trigger for social learning in wild animals.

Many animals that live in groups learn from one another, but few wild animals have opened a window into understanding animal social learning like a single bird species: the great tits.

"We now understand how these stunning colours can evolve in wild animals through a simple dial-like 'molecular switch' that 'borrows' a detoxifying protein to serve a new function," Carneiro concludes.

I started off my Saturday morning at 9:59 with the closing credits of a show about wild animals.