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Keepers at the Chimfunshi Wildlife Orphanage in Zambia have noticed a fashion trend spreading among groups of chimpanzees living there – sticking strands of grass in their ears or rectums, and just le

Nadia Shaikh seeks good company for a search-and-gorge to get her through the ruthless darkness of the winter months

Our round-up of the funny, fascinating and unusual stories this fortnight

● A couple of miles inland from the ...

Whether winter-faded ferns, the spindly harvestman or the tyrannical stare of an irate chicken, through-lines from the prehistoric to our modern age are all around us in November, says John Lewis-Stempel

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