Animals
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Giraffe in New York became an online celebrity as millions tuned in to watch her birth, but zoo ran into hiccups after alleged violation of YouTube’s nudity policy
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A jaguar killing an anteater, a green tree python and the winner of the underwater photographer of the year are among this week’s images from the natural world
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NSW central coast schoolboy, aged 10, was given 12 vials of antivenom after he was bitten by a male spider hiding in a shoe
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Fiona, a prematurely-born Nile hippo calf, is making excellent progress at her home at The Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden after the staff from a local children’s hospital stepped in to help
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DNA sequencing shows insects crossed oceans then migrated from treetops to the ground to adapt to ancient climate change
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Camera -trap footage shows a giant anteater going toe-to-toe with a jaguar in the Gurupi Biological Reserve in the Brazilian state of Maranhão
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Without camera traps we would never be privy to two endangered species sparring in the remote Amazon rainforest.
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Country diary: Blackwater Carr, Norfolk Once you are attuned to this avian tree propagation, it becomes a pleasure to find other instances
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Notebook Can we have too many trees?
Patrick BarkhamHunting and mountaineering organisations say that plans to increase forest cover in Scotland will ruin the countryside. I disagree
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Originally published in the Manchester Guardian on 20 February 1917: Everywhere the thrushes, starlings and dunnocks are shuffling their wings and trilling vigorously
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Edie has been a much-loved family cat for years, but when she died it led to some interesting conversations between Eva, her mum and her young daughter…
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The prime minister’s initiative on this most pernicious practice is welcome. Now she must put her money where her mouth is
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Audits carried out at more than 300 abattoirs in England, Wales and Northern Ireland find major hygiene failings in more than a quarter of meat plants
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RSPCA believes baby chickens came from commercial producer but were dumped by a third party
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Country diary: Slufters Inclosure, New Forest This hardy specimen of butterfly has found an ideal basking site among still damp grasses in a bed of fern
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Sea turtles laying eggs, buffalo and a swan lake are among this week’s pick of images from the natural world
Country diary Close encounter with a grouse of the red kind