The domestication of cattle

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Asian or yellow-legged hornets (Vespa velutina) can deliver a very painful sting widely described as being “jabbed with a red-hot needle”. However, as with our native European hornet (Vespa crabro), t

D o you remember cecil the lion, the bold, wild and archetypally handsome big cat at Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park? With a glorious flowing mane and a royal swagger, Cecil was the star attraction at

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The animals I grew up with still need our help, says Saba Douglas-Hamilton

Imagine doing your entire food shop at a butcher’s. No vegetables, no bread, no fruit, no pasta, milk or biscuits – just a trolley full of meat, fish, eggs and lard. That’s the carnivore diet. Its gos