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James Tapper
Planning of the apes: chimps use military tactics to attack rivals
Sat 18 Apr 2026
Olly Williams
Olly Williams: ‘I owe my career to a white shark’
Sat 18 Apr 2026
Simon Barnes
My week as a giant panda
Wed 15 Apr 2026
Simon Barnes
My week as a brown hare
Sat 4 Apr 2026
Simon Barnes
My week as a Venus’s flower basket
Wed 25 Mar 2026
Simon Barnes
My week as a Chinese pangolin
Sat 21 Mar 2026
Letters to the editor
Top dogs are biggest losers genetically
Sun 15 Mar 2026
Simon Barnes
My week as a red kangaroo
Thu 12 Mar 2026
Simon Barnes
My week as a marsh harrier
Mon 2 Mar 2026
Simon Barnes
My week as an orchid mantis
Tue 24 Feb 2026
Simon Barnes
My week as a whitetip reef shark
Wed 18 Feb 2026
Simon Barnes
My week as a marine iguana
Wed 11 Feb 2026
James Tapper
Fifty shades of drey: how a scheme to sterilise grey squirrels turned them pink
Sun 8 Feb 2026
Simon Barnes
My week as a brown-throated three-toed sloth
Tue 3 Feb 2026
Simon Barnes
My week as a song thrush
Tue 27 Jan 2026
David Barnett
The man who once lived as a badger has made a show about pets
Tue 20 Jan 2026
Simon Barnes
My week as a bolas spider
Tue 20 Jan 2026
Tim Adams
‘If you spend a lot of time with another creature, you sense another world’
Sat 10 Jan 2026
Simon Barnes
My week as an adder
Tue 6 Jan 2026
John Simpson
Campaigners scent a chance to avert trail hunting ban
Sun 28 Dec 2025
Naomi Alderman
Beavers, books and brilliance: 25 things worth celebrating about 2025
Thu 25 Dec 2025
Jonathan Lewis
A private zoo run by Asia’s richest family has alarmed conservationists
Mon 8 Dec 2025
India’s Noah’s ark
11 mins • S1, E1250
Simon Barnes
My week as an atlas moth
Mon 1 Dec 2025
Simon Barnes
My week as a red-bellied piranha
Tue 25 Nov 2025
Martha Gill
The more zoos teach us, the harder it is to ignore the cages
Thu 13 Nov 2025
James Tapper
Smugglers cash in as dancing parrots go viral
Sun 9 Nov 2025
Simon Barnes
My week as a termite
Thu 6 Nov 2025
Simon Barnes
My week as an alpha male wolf
Wed 29 Oct 2025
Simon Barnes
My week as a Krøyer’s deep-sea anglerfish
Tue 21 Oct 2025
Simon Barnes
Worries about winter diminish by the day: my week as a jay
Wed 15 Oct 2025
Simon Barnes
My week as a honey badger
Wed 8 Oct 2025
Simon Barnes
My week as an antlion
Fri 3 Oct 2025
Martha Gill
Today James Herriot’s surgery would be part of a mega chain
Sun 28 Sept 2025
Call off the dogs – my week as a pheasant
Wed 24 Sept 2025
Simon Barnes
My week as a lion’s mane jellyfish
Wed 17 Sept 2025
Simon Barnes
My week as a lion
Fri 12 Sept 2025
Simon Barnes
My week as an Eleonora’s falcon
Thu 28 Aug 2025
Richard Benson
Can UK farming survive rising costs, climate crisis and a new tax?
Wed 13 Aug 2025
