The BBC make a lot of lovely programs about wildlife and the natural world in Africa, but not one of them mentions climate change — odd no?
Wildlife
Stoned wallabies, not aliens, damaging poppy crops
The mystery of crop circles in and around Tasmania’s legal opium poppy fields may have been solved. It’s not aliens, but junkie wallabies hopping around in dazed circles.
Amazon frog’s secretions turn humans into killing machines
Deep in the Amazon rain forest hides a very special frog called the Phyllomedusa bicolor. The Mayoruna tribe uses this frog’s gooey secretions to obtain superpowers that transform them into killer hunting machines. This helps them target their prey — monkeys. Yes, they eat monkeys.
Video of the Day: Not happy Jan — reporters v wildlife
One unhappy reporter catches a fly in his mouth and blames it on the countryside. While another falls foul of some bird.
Wallaroo on loose in Madison County
Rebekah Janson’s friends were a bit sceptical of her claims she saw a kangaroo-like animal jumping through fields near her home. So she got out her video camera.
Won’t somebody think of the vultures?
Farmers are to be allowed to leave dead livestock in their fields in parts of Europe — to help starving vultures.
Attacked by a giant snake? Call the Python hotline!
Over the years enough pet Burmese pythons in south Florida have been released into the wild that one National Park Service scientist has estimated now there could be as many as 30,000 of them in the Everglades National Park area.
