Animals

Charles Foster wanted to know what it was like to be a beast: a badger, an otter, a deer, a fox, a swift. What it was really like. And through knowing what it was like he wanted to get down and grapple with the beast in us all. So he tried it out: he lived life as a badger for six weeks, sleeping...

Here are entertaining accounts of the courtships, wars, & characters of animals encountered in West Africa, South America, Greece, etc., including the stories of Sarah Huggersack, an orphaned baby giant anteater, & Pavlo, a marmoset from Guiana.

Here are entertaining accounts of the courtships, wars, & characters of animals encountered in West Africa, South America, Greece, etc., including the stories of Sarah Huggersack, an orphaned baby giant anteater, & Pavlo, a marmoset from Guiana.

Documenting the species that have emerged, disappeared and been reborn over the millennia since the Cambrian Explosion, 'Lost Animals' is the story of life on Earth. Over 520 million years ago, all the major animal groups - molluscs, worms, crustaceans, vertebrates - appear in the fossil record i...

Guide dog Laura needed a new home. And, after listening to her owner talk on the radio about what would happen to her much loved guide and companion when she retired, Martin Clunes picked up the phone. He'd always been a soft touch when it came to animals. One more couldn't hurt. Adopting Laura o...

Simon Barnes takes us white-water rafting through the entire animal kingdom in a book which brings in deep layers of arcane knowledge, the works of Darwin and James Joyce, Barnes's own don't-try-this-at-home adventures in the wild, David Attenborough and Sherlock Holmes.

History is full of strange animal stories, invented by the brightest and most influential, from Aristotle to Disney, and they reveal as much about us and the things we believe as they do about the animals they misrepresent. We once thought that eels were born from sand, that swallows hibernated u...