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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

The article by jess stevens on black rhinos in Namibia (‘My only option was to pretend to be a tree’, October 2025) reminded me of my visits there more than 20 years ago, when I volunteered for variou

Amazing answers to your curious questions

Urban wildlife comes in many guises – and sizes. But could an animal as huge as a rhinoceros stroll the streets? Well, yes, and that animal is the Indian rhino. The second-largest of five extant speci

What doesn’t fuel us, may still be fuel! Did you know that researchers are turning food waste into sustainable plane fuel? With heat and pressure, dinner scraps can be transformed into an oil which in