Overnight, George had taken not only his final breath but the final breath of his entire species, the Pinta Island tortoise, ...

If you've seen it in a horror movie, a bug probably did it first. To celebrate Halloween, here's a look at some of nature's ...

There are real vampires in the world of bats. Out of over 1,400 currently described bat species, three are known to feed on blood exclusively. To me, as a behavioural ecologist, who is interested ...

Across the vast Northern Hemisphere range of the moose, this biggest member of the deer family is just past the rigours of the rut, aka the breeding season. That autumnal stretch of the calendar ...

WARNING: This footage is extremely graphic and may offend sensitive viewers. In March 2013 Kruger National Park section ranger Richard Sowry captured the ugly face of South Africa's poaching ...

Homosexual Giraffes Do What Comes Naturally EPISODE SYNOPSIS 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 ...

How goats and weaving saved the Bali starling EPISODE SYNOPSIS Just a few years ago, the illegal pet trade was decimating Bali starling populations in the wild, with fewer than ten of the birds ...

It’s no holiday for the gibbons of Thailand. Habitat loss, poaching for traditional medicine and the cruel capture of baby gibbons for both the pet and tourism trade have left all but one ...

Lion mating ritual up close EPISODE SYNOPSIS 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 ...

Building a drone to let us see what Africa's most dangerous animals get up to underwater is not as easy as we thought it would be! Watch as we build the first ever Earth Touch submarine camera ...