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

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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

Deena was suffering from depression when she heard that an area of the Colorado Rocky Mountains near her home sheltered the elusive snowshoe hare. “The idea of photographing these animals was just wha

Britain is a country mercifully bereft of threatening fauna–or so you might believe. John Lewis-Stempel provides a miscellany of our otherwise benign land’s more fearsome critters

Have your very own Winter Watch at home and look out for some garden visitors in the coming weeks and months