that friday feeling

Kicking up the dirt. 💨🐘 A perfect capture of an African elephant dust bathing. 📸 These iconic giants keep their skin clean and protect themselves from sunburn by taking regular dust and mud baths. #WildlifePhotography

Spring nights on the dunes come alive with sound 🎶🐸 This is the call of the natterjack toad, one of the UK’s rarest amphibians. Natterjacks depend on warm, shallow pools on coastal dunes and sandy heaths. A rare sound, from a fragile habitat, & one well worth protecting.

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

1-page comic

subscriptions >>> shop.viz.co.uk/viz354bs

I shall retire / to rehab beavers I shall retire / to rehab beavers I shall retire / to rehab beavers no turning back / no turning back

A joyful snow leopard surprise to brighten your day. 🫶 Footage from wildlife monitoring in the Annanba Wild Camel National Nature Reserve in China. 📹

Rise and shine with Carol from Belfast. 🤗

Howling with anticipation for Lobo Week, starting this Sunday, March 22! 🐺 Join us all week long as we celebrate wolves and the work being done to protect them. Learn how you can get involved: nywolf.org/loboweek-2026/

Reading the news

Take a break from the scroll with Charlie. 🤗

Her Game Too #hergametoo

Early Arthropods xkcd.com/3199/

Blimey. Through to the QF for the first time since 20 years before I was born. #pvfc

Delighted for Port Vale and their fans. Been a lot of understandable griping about football this year but this year’s fifth round has been brilliant. Special mention for Mansfield yesterday who were magnificent and gave Arsenal a hell of a scare.

"Remembered years from now" - a view on Port Vale's stunning FA Cup giantkilling #pvfc www.onevalefan.co.uk/2026/03/opin...

Port vale 1 Bristol city 0 - sweet #pvfc

Atlantic Puffin (Fratercula arctica): This 28cm (11in) seabird is much adored across the Atlantic, breeding from Maine in USA to Newfoundland in Canada, Iceland, Ireland, Greenland, Norway and the UK. Striking photo taken by John Gawthrope in Scotland #puffin #atlanticpuffin #bird #nature #wildlife

Here to brighten your feed with this heartwarming snap from Woods Farm. ❤️

We recently welcomed students from Bristol Equine Veterinary Society to spend the day at our specialist donkey hospital and Sidmouth sanctuary. 👋⁣ ⁣ The visit was an opportunity to help the vets of the future learn more about donkeys and mules, and how they differ from horses ➡️ bray.news/3OZ4YPz

I love how humans invent new ways to record things. We're a scrapbooking species. From carving letters into stone, to grooves in wax cylinders to record the vibrations created by the human voice or a musical instrument. Here's a constructed video of how a phonograph stylus moves across a record.

Czechoslovakian wolfdog named Nazgul escaped his kennel at the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics and ran the cross-country skiing course alongside the athletes. He is the best thing to happen at these Games, and here's how it happened. zurl.co/gWBum

☄️

Currently listening to...

Japanese artist under the nickname Avogado6. Ink and you know.... cats

Being told you need a reason for everything felt wildly unfair as a kid. Sometimes you just wanted to make noise. #CalvinandHobbes #KidEnergy

Throwing it back to 2016… Moments like this are rarely seen. 🧡 This footage of snow leopard quadruplets was captured by WWF-Mongolia in 2016 using camera traps, offering a glimpse into the secret lives of these elusive cats.