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NATURE’S WEIRDEST CREATURES
Lock up your goats, it’s the great eared nightjar
Britain is a country mercifully bereft of threatening fauna–or so you might believe. John Lewis-Stempel provides a miscellany of our otherwise benign land’s more fearsome critters
As a child, i saw owls as mystical beings that operated by night, were difficult to see at the best of times, and hung out in woodland locations far from the largely concrete surroundings of my home i
PHOTOS, LETTERS, TWEETS, QUESTIONS – HAVE YOUR SAY
These enormous storks are just one of Costa Rica’s many avian attractions, writes Ruth Miller
Unfairly maligned as a sneaky troublemaker, the quicksilver ferret is a characterful, curious and highly intelligent creature–with fascinating regal and cultural trappings to boot, writes Octavia Pollock
Of the 60,000 or so species of named weevils on this planet, Trachelophorus giraffa stands out by, well, a neck’s length. It is one of the iconic and endemic ‘must-see’ species for those planning a vi