I feel compelled to jump into the hoo-ha that has surrounded the ‘startling’ episode of a young leopard jumping onto the bonnet of a safari vehicle – an incident which has put so many knickers into tight knots. Let’s go back in time so that we have perspective. Leopards evolved over some three million years…
Bees should terrify me. I am one sting from death, my doctor has told me. That was after one stung me deep in my throat when I took a swig of beer from a can we had unknowingly shared. Had my throat swelled then, as it might now, that may have been my last sip…
Hunting fired his soul as with his father and every forebear before Lean and fit spear in hand and dogs at foot, newly a man he went off to hunt But subtle changes separate modern man from revered ancestors Where his father hunted meat for the family to eat He with eyes aflame, could hunt…
Endless toil and penned abuse has elevated me to valued use: the president dines with me tonight to talk of dolphins' and others' plight. I plan to report of the hypocrisy towards our fellow creatures that exists in our `democracy': denied the universal right to assert their will it is for them I devote my…