elephants
Animal magic
With the technologies at our disposal, we can in fact now know what it’s like to be a bat, says Caspar Henderson
Meet Congo, the Leonardo of chimps, whose paintings sell for £14,500
Three million years ago one of our ancestors, Australopithecus africanus, picked up a pebble and took it home to its…
London Notebook
The new government seems to be struggling with the logistical intricacies of removing Britain from the European Union. I can…
Elephant in the room
Burning stockpiles of ivory was meant to wipe out poaching. After nearly 30 years, is it working?
Pliny on the joy of elephants
In order to deter poachers, hundreds of tons of elephants’ tusks are being incinerated in Kenya. But even for Romans,…
Not so happy valley
Simon Barnes opens with a presumably true idea, that we are all in search of our own versions of paradise…
Letters
The power of creativity Sir: A rounded education should encourage creativity as well as maths, English, science and history if…
Charles Moore’s Notes: If we want to save the elephant, we must legalise the ivory trade
How good a deal for Britain is it that the president of China got a state visit and a nuclear…
Man’s greed and gain
Laikipia An elephant can break through an electric fence by pulling out the posts, pushing younger, more stupid animals into…
Long life
More than 20 years ago, when I was living in New York, I wrote an article about the mutilation by…
Letters
Piggies in the middle Sir: Your feature ‘The strange death of the middle class’ (24 August) assumes that young people…
Wild life
Laikipia The bull elephant had roamed our northern marches of the Laikipia plateau for decades. I always recognised him…
