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Adam Weymouth
A load of old pony? Von der Leyen’s wolf kill story cast into doubt ahead of cull
Sun 14 Jun 2026
Fred Harter
An octopus surge is reshaping England’s coastal waters
Wed 10 Jun 2026
Simon Barnes
My week as a flat-headed cat
Sun 7 Jun 2026
Simon Barnes
My week as a swallow
Thu 28 May 2026
Simon Barnes
My week as a Grote’s bertholdia moth
Sun 24 May 2026
Simon Barnes
My week as a common pipistrelle
Sun 17 May 2026
Simon Barnes
My week as a foureye butterflyfish
Wed 6 May 2026
My gorilla encounter left me overwhelmed with a feeling of extraordinary privilege
Sun 3 May 2026
James Tapper
How magnets and a mini trapeze could help save Britain’s bees
Sun 3 May 2026
Simon Barnes
My week as a bar-headed goose
Sun 3 May 2026
Simon Barnes
My week as a grass snake
Sun 26 Apr 2026
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
