Clouds of noxious gas, stink bombs and purple smokescreens may sound like schoolboy pranks, but the animal world is just as capable of executing arresting chemical warfare, says Deborah Nicholls-Lee

An unassuming entrance leads to the amazing underworld of rabbits, where social order rules, and every corridor has a purpose

Adrian Thomas looks to the skies for three special birds that you may see over your garden or might even attract into your space to breed

A Russia of trees and liberty and peace: ...

Make a simple box around 20cm deep, or cut the top off a plastic squash bottle and use the remaining bottom, applying masking tape to cover the sharp cut edge. Add a hole at the back to fix it to a sh

Fluid in flight and perplexingly wide-ranging, the short-eared owl is a singular figure in the family– and a figure of particular terror to the vole