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Wildlife desk · Issue 03

Elephant herds are quietly rewriting what we know about grief

In Kruger, matriarchs return to waterholes their grandmothers used, and researchers are only now mapping the memory that guides them.

Elephant - field photograph

Top stories

Issue 03
Snow Leopard - field photograph

Species

Camera traps in the eastern Himalaya recorded an animal no survey had logged since 2013, on a corridor biologists thought had gone quiet.

Tenzin Dorje7 min read

Grizzly Bear - field photograph

Habitat

Bears are appearing in valleys that field guides still list as empty, and managers are arguing about what to call a range that keeps moving.

Marta Lindqvist9 min read

Wolf - field photograph

Behaviour

Collars and long lenses have produced an unusually detailed record of how a pack reorganises when its most experienced hunter is gone.

Ivar Solberg8 min read

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Birds

Priya Raghavan6 min read

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Conservation

Nadia Rahmawati5 min read

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Species

Tenzin Dorje7 min read

Golden Eagle - field photograph

Photo essay

Fieldwork, at a distance

Most of the photographs in this issue were made with long lenses from vehicles or hides. Nothing here was baited, and no animal was approached on foot. The distance is not a limitation; it is the condition that makes the behaviour worth watching.

Golden eagle in flight, Pfyn-Finges, Switzerland.

Editor's note

“The animals in this issue are not symbols. They are neighbours with schedules, and the reporting only works if we keep showing up at the hours they keep.”

Nadia Rahmawati · Editor, Wild

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