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The tortoise-riding banker who collected the natural world

Lionel Rothschild sent intrepid collectors far and wide on deadly missions to bring back wildlife specimens, and amassed a world-beating collection – but then he blew the lot

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A tui singing in a tree

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Songbird gets angry when its rivals are brilliant at singing

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platypus swimming

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Five mythical animals that turned out to be real

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The greater mouse-eared bat has a habit of bumping into windows

Life

Bats crash into windows because of a glitch with their 'sonar'

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A group of macaques

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Low-ranked female monkeys band together against their leaders

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pig on a sofa

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The porker paradox: A very human dilemma

Culture

otters

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Wild tales of stuffy sharks, intimate otters and unloved horses

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cheetah running

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Why fast birds, fish and animals are never too small or big

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An ant-jumper spider

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Spider waves its front legs like antennae to mimic warlike ants

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Lots of adult Burmese star tortoises

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My patrol with armed guards to protect Burmese star tortoises

The magnificent reptiles were on the verge of extinction in Myanmar, but are now being reintroduced to the wild. Alice Klein joins the effort to save them

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Watch how spiders use sticky silk to win deadly wrestling match

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Tree-climbing goats spit out and disperse valuable argan seeds

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See-through frog has heart you can see beating through its chest

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Ladybird’s transparent shell reveals how it folds its wings

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