Where the Wild Things Are

For better or worse, the beaver is back. Isabella Tree visits their Bavarian lair

Following the lammergeyer, a particularly tough vulture, to its Corsican lair

The Seychelles are home to some of the world’s largest bats

The wandering albatross is dying in vast numbers – but there is hope too

The fortitude of the American bison

It’s a fungus, it dwells in droppings, and it looks great Richard Fortey gets down and dirty with Pilobolus

In the Roof of Africa lives a most atypical monkey. Henry Wismayer rises at dawn to study the second-most political of primates

The 3,000 tigers roaming free in Asia are hard to find. Ruth Padel has followed them into the forests of the night

For this elegant bird, romance is for life and all its world is a stage