Snow days

RED FOX

Did you have much experience with pets or taking care of animals before you found the newborn hare? I had very little direct experience outside childhood. My father is a diplomat so I grew up abroad.

When the temperature drops, how do Britain’s birds, beasts and plants keep the chill at bay? John Lewis-Stempel reveals Nature’s own thermals

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

Just when you thought Bambi couldn’t get any cuter, meet the pudu, the world’s smallest deer. Standing little taller than a domestic cat, what it lacks in size, it more than makes up for in allure. Do

This striking snowy-feathered bird is a winter visitor to Britain, particularly near the coasts of northern England and Scotland