zoos

Porcelain-painting during the French revolution

17 August 2024 9:00 am

People don’t accumulate stuff any more. When the late Victorian houses on our street change hands their interiors are stripped…

Good luck enjoying eating salmon ever again

29 May 2021 9:00 am

‘I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by cat videos,’ begins Henry Mance’s How to Love Animals, winningly.…

Going ape with boredom in captivity

28 May 2016 9:00 am

King Kong, the story of a violently amorous gorilla, Me Cheeta, the autobiography of a slanderous Hollywood chimpanzee, and now…

Jumbo

Why you shouldn't keep elephants

8 February 2014 9:00 am

On 15 September 1885, the world’s most famous elephant, Jumbo, was killed by a train. Jumbo, the star attraction at…