With their formidable six-feet wingspan and hefty undercarriage, a swan looks as reliably airborne as anything else around Heathrow. But every autumn and winter on the M25, crash-landing juvenile swans cause as much traffic congestion as car accidents. The worst black spot is junction 13, where the motorway crosses the Thames, and where the Highways [...]

Cats and dogs, usually enemies in the game of survival, here in Garden of Good Hope they sleep, eat and play together. Among Siberia husky puppies grows baby black panther, which was rejected by her mother. Baby panther obviously doesn’t care for having dogs for brothers, which only goes to show that cats and dogs [...]

Solitary magpies are supposed to bring bad luck, but birdspotters have not been put off flocking to see the rare albino specemin. The odd-looking bird had been spotted in the grounds of Dover Castle in Kent and being fed by its parents, which both have the more common black and white colouring of magpies. But [...]

BUTTERFLY sex is not as elegant an affair as you might think. It seems that male monarch butterflies conduct an all-out sperm war based on a crude measure of how much sperm is stored inside a female from a previous mating. During sex the males physically restrain the females for an entire day while injecting [...]

The German Shepherd Dog originated in 1899 at Karlsruhe, Germany due to the efforts of Captain Max von Stephanitz and others. Derived from the old breeds of herding and farm dogs, the first German Shepherd Dog exhibited in America was in 1907. The fame associated with Rin-Tin-Tin and Strongheart, two members of the breed whose [...]