Can animals make friends?

Amazing answers to your curious questions

L ike countless others, as a child I dreamed of one day working with animals. I learned how to identify bird calls, collected anything I could find on the high-tide line, and once even picked up a dea

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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