Ashley Leiman OBE, director of the Orangutan Foundation, explores the complex relationship between man and our closest relatives – the great apes The great apes are often perceived differently to ...

Imagine for a moment that you are looking at a perfect stream. What do you see? Your answer will probably depend on where in the country you live, but it is unlikely to involve large, unsightly ...

a total of around 600trillion (6×1014) synapses. This suggests that the brain has about 300 times as many connections as ChatGPT-4. However, it is unlikely that the competence of these systems is ...

Highly Commended: Krish Desha Beerachee, aged 11, from Oatlands Junior School Highly Commended: Rahni Spaul, aged 9, from Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls Highly Commended: Sky Walker, aged 11, ...

These resources were created around the time of the 2012 Olympics and offer a fun way to explore adaptations in animals and could be used as part of activities related to various different biology ...

People think of chameleons as the masters of camouflage, but the coleoids – octopuses, squid and cuttlefish – are far ahead in terms of manipulating their appearance[1]. Because their skin appearance ...

Full HUBS membership is open to university departments interested in contributing to debates on priorities in the biosciences. The Head of Department is normally the point of contact but they can also ...

There is more to those well-advertised chocolate treats than meets the eye. The essence of chocolate is Theobroma cacao, which aptly translates as 'food of the gods'. T. cacao is a native of the upper ...

In our very first episode of the Biosphere Podcast, we dive into the world of animal behaviour and talk to Professor Sir Ian Boyd, RSB's President about his research and his science policy experience ...

For the last five years Janelle Kaz has combined her love of nature and motorcycles on a two-wheeled intercontinental conservation adventure. She gives The Biologist a taster of the latest leg of her ...

Human infrastructure such as roads, railways, dams and mines can have devastating consequences for the great apes and gibbons. Some of these consequences are obvious – for example, habitat ...

This is a fascinating history of ‘climatic botany’: the relationship between forest and rainfall. The belief that forest and rainfall are closely connected has a long history, from Christopher ...