Ignore the bad rep. bats are one of our biggest allies

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

TRACKING

The need to know what they’re up to drew ecologist Jonathan Briggs deeper into birding…

RED FOX

Remember, remember, watch wildlife in November,

When the temperature drops, how do Britain’s birds, beasts and plants keep the chill at bay? John Lewis-Stempel reveals Nature’s own thermals