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DANGEROUS ANIMALS
D o you remember cecil the lion, the bold, wild and archetypally handsome big cat at Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park? With a glorious flowing mane and a royal swagger, Cecil was the star attraction at
“There are too many women traveling luxuriously in ‘Darkest Africa’. Eskimos of Disco, Greenland, are publishing a newspaper,” Charles Fort wrote in New Lands. So I checked whether there were still ne
Asian or yellow-legged hornets (Vespa velutina) can deliver a very painful sting widely described as being “jabbed with a red-hot needle”. However, as with our native European hornet (Vespa crabro), t
When Tipu Sultan resisted Britain’s colonial expansion, he was painted as a bogeyman and, after he fell, his kingdom was looted with shocking rapacity, but his legacy has long awed the British–not least William Blake and John Keats, as Lucien de Guise discovers
Q I’m used to hearing golfing terms like “bogey” and “birdie”, but what exactly do they mean? I’ve never known! A There are probably quite a lot of people out there who have heard these terms but aren