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The hedgehog and the fox poll highest as ‘the nation’s top animal’

24 May 2025 9:00 am

Karen R. Jones’s surprising choice of ten creatures to represent Britain makes for a truly wonderful book – erudite and fun

On a wing and a prayer

3 August 2013 9:00 am

‘A world without birds would lay waste the human heart,’ writes Mark Cocker. Following his Birds Britannica and prize-winning Crow…