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In the book "My Family and Other Animals" by the famed naturalist Gerald Durrell, he relates an episode of his childhood (mid to late 1930s) when his family lived on the Greek island of Corfu for a few years. During this time, his two older brothers (Larry and Leslie) often duked it out when it…
There’s been some monkey business going on between Sri Lanka and China. Or at least, there was plenty being planned, but it has now been put on hold. You may not have heard about it because, unlike trophy hunting, there are no supposedly wealthy hunters to be demonised in this story. From the perspective of the Western media, the lack of a convenient enemy seems to have devalued the item’s newsworthiness. The gist of the story is that Sri Lanka was planning to export 100,000 live toque macaque monkeys to China. Why it wished to do this is unclear, although there is speculation that it was ...
Ms Staunton, 67, who plays the late Queen in the hit Netflix show, looked relaxed as her husband Jim Carter, 74, was given a crash course in piloting the vessel.
A wonderful, much-missed housemate, his death ended my fantasy of having a house full of exotic creatures