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Rare albino honey badger captured on camera in South Africa

Honey badgers have cemented their place as one of Africa's most fearsome and charismatic predators – helped in no small part by jaw-dropping videos of the two-toned creatures tackling leopards and playing 'python tug-of-war' with jackals.


Ed Sheeran installs frog-friendly fencing around his new private chapel

Ed Sheeran has erected newt and frog-friendly fencing around the site of his new private chapel as construction work continues at 'Sheeranville'.

The popstar, 30, put up the Heras mesh panels to try to keep amphibians out of the development at his £3.7million 'mini village' near Framlingham in Suffolk.


Woburn Safari Park: Elton the tiger put to sleep after illness

A male Amur tiger at Woburn Safari Park has had to be put to sleep after a brief illness.

Elton, who was 10 years old, arrived at the Bedfordshire attraction in 2013 from Ostrava Zoo in the Czech Republic.


Elephant’s trunk may be one of most sensitive body parts of any animal

Elephant trunks may be one of the most sensitive body parts in the animal kingdom.

Michael Brecht at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience in Berlin and his colleagues dissected the heads of three Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) and five African bush elephants (Loxodonta africana).