elephants
Fish that swim backwards – and other natural wonders
With the technologies at our disposal, we can in fact now know what it’s like to be a bat, says Caspar Henderson
Meet Congo, the Leonardo of chimps, whose paintings sell for £14,500
Three million years ago one of our ancestors, Australopithecus africanus, picked up a pebble and took it home to its…
Evgeny Lebedev: Organising my theatre awards makes Brexit look easy
The new government seems to be struggling with the logistical intricacies of removing Britain from the European Union. I can…
What do we gain by burning ivory?
Burning stockpiles of ivory was meant to wipe out poaching. After nearly 30 years, is it working?
Elephants are special – the Romans knew it too
In order to deter poachers, hundreds of tons of elephants’ tusks are being incinerated in Kenya. But even for Romans,…
The Luangwa is far from being a happy valley
Simon Barnes opens with a presumably true idea, that we are all in search of our own versions of paradise…
Letters: Nicholas Serota answers Toby Young on arts teaching
The power of creativity Sir: A rounded education should encourage creativity as well as maths, English, science and history if…
Charles Moore’s Notes: If we want to save the elephant, we must legalise the ivory trade
How good a deal for Britain is it that the president of China got a state visit and a nuclear…
Africa is no longer the land of elephants
Laikipia An elephant can break through an electric fence by pulling out the posts, pushing younger, more stupid animals into…
America's crazy war on old pianos
More than 20 years ago, when I was living in New York, I wrote an article about the mutilation by…
Letters: Peter Hitchens vs Nick Cohen, and the case against the middle class
Piggies in the middle Sir: Your feature ‘The strange death of the middle class’ (24 August) assumes that young people…
Killing in Kenya: Aidan Hartley tracks the last steps of an elephant
Laikipia The bull elephant had roamed our northern marches of the Laikipia plateau for decades. I always recognised him…
