All you ever needed to know about thefisher

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

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

RED FOX

PHOTOS, LETTERS, TWEETS, QUESTIONS – HAVE YOUR SAY

Hannah Betts prefers parading pelts to donning dun uniforms

SPECIES PROFILE COMMON SCOTER