Wildlife
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A newborn Sitatunga calf and an orange-bellied parrot are among this week’s pick of images from the natural world
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Move hailed as first formal reintroduction of a once native mammal in the UK
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Critically endangered bird – down to just 14 in the wild – not helped by being ‘morons’ with poor survival instincts
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Ants on the Pacific islands observed carefully sowing and fertilising seeds of at least six types of plant as part of a relationship that reaches back 3m years
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Rats’ agility and keen sense of smell will one day be used to reach parts of shipping containers that sniffer dogs cannot reach
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Recognising that we humans are creatures of story, the nature series has the narrative brio of Game of Thrones
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Five years after the last rabbit was killed, endangered birds such as the black-browed albatross are growing in numbers
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A pheasant that sports Donald Trump’s hairdo, a line of baboons and a ‘teddy bear’ bee and among this week’s pick of images from the natural world
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Facing my fear I nearly died from an insect sting. The fear it left was worse than the wound
Beverly WillettI carried an EpiPen around for years, more as a crutch than a reassurance. Then one day, I forgot it while walking in a field of bee-friendly wildflowers -
Country Diary: Lake Manasarovar, Tibet Bar-headed geese are popular with British fanciers, but better to think of them here, readying for their lofty migration over the Himalayas
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Thousands of dead fish were seen on the surface of the Shinnecock Canal in Southampton, New York, on Monday, after becoming trapped inside overnight
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Award-winning wildlife photographer, Sue Flood, is one of the world’s only women to specialise in polar photography. Her images capture wildlife, people and landscapes in the Arctic and Antarctica
Country diary A solitary little egret is an elegant sentinel on the muddy creek