Wildlife: Mammals

Hippos are well-loved, cumbersome, rotund mammals famous for lounging around semi-submerged in muddy pools. Gregarious herbivores, they emerge afte...

Bats have been misunderstood and maligned in the West for centuries. Unfair associations with demons have seen their leathery wings adorn numerous ...

Wolves were once common throughout North America and Eurasia. But by the early twentieth century, bounties and organized hunts had drastically redu...

The bat is a liminal thing - our only flying mammal, a dusk dweller and symbol of death and otherness in many cultures. They are also expressive, b...

The leopard is the ultimate cat. It makes the lion and the tiger appear overblown and all the other members of the cat family look puny. Whereas li...

Alternately joyous and heartbreaking... Jane GoodallA moving and revealing biography of Norways most famous chimpanzee.Julius is a national celebri...

Bats have long been the focus of fascination, and sometimes fear: they move faultlessly through the darkness and spend the day hanging upside down ...

A mysterious and rarely seen beast, the Scottish Wildcat is Britains rarest mammal, and one of the most endangered carnivores in the world.Over the...

Spotlight: Hares is packed with eye-catching, informative colour photos, and features succinct and detailed text written by a knowledgeable natural...