Crocodiles taught not to chow down on toxic toads

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

The SAS (Special Air Service) make routine use of sleep-deprivation exercises in their selection process, and these often feature in later training. Hallucinations during such exercises are very commo

Lynn Farram and the congregation of Christ Church, Norris Green, Liverpool

When famed country singer Willie Nelson’s home caught fire in 1969, he fought his way through the flames to rescue his best friend and bandmate, Trigger. Fifty-six years later, they’re still making mu

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

The astounding biodiversity in the country’s Amazon region gives rise to one of nature’s richest larders