A terrifying health scare left me with a purr-fectly spooky gift.

AS you enter the gates of Monkey World in Dorset, you hear the howls of gibbons, the hoots of chimpanzees and the squeals of delighted children. The sanctuary opened with 10 primates in 1987 and now h

In a time when people are being asked to consider eating insects, we should, perhaps, learn a thing or two from the aardvark (Orycteropus afer), Africa’s ant-guzzling gourmand. On an average night, th

Mandy Forwood has transformed her home into a sanctuary for her spiky little friends

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Mental health can shape not just a rider’s performance, but their horse’s wellbeing. Oscar Williams discovers how to recognise the signs – and why it’s sometimes braver not to ride