Elephants on the move
Family herds darted for transport to new national park home in Malawi
Up and leave
Bats are known to move to hibernation sites in autumn
Dream weavers
Biologists discover jumping spiders experience rapid eye movement sleep by “peering into their heads”
Resurrection time for extinct Tasmanian tiger
Restoring the extinct thylacine could aid rewilding, but wildlife experts have their doubts
Life in the sloe lane
It’s harvest time for the fruit of the blackhorn tree
Here comes the rain again
There’s no better time to visit Britain’s lush temperate rainforests
Origin of pieces
The species is largely tropical, but the horns’ buoyancy means they do occasionally turn up on UK beaches
Opinion: Gillian Burke
“Yes, you can plant a tree, but will it survive and thrive?”
Return of the native
Common cranes have a distinctively slow yet somehow self-important stride
10 misleading animal names
Some species have very deceptive common names.