As someone not overly into animals, I do really like this recurring feature in the LRB. My favorite recent one was on the Hedgehog. Among other great anecdotes:

As someone not overly into animals, I do really like this recurring feature in the LRB. My favorite recent one was on the Hedgehog. Among other great anecdotes: "The 1566 debate led to the decision to put a tuppence bounty on hedgehogs: farmers believed they suckled milk from cows in the night, and as a result as many as two million were hunted and handed in. That was another of our mistakes: hedgehogs are lactose intolerant and milk can kill them." https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v41/n20/katherine-rundell/consider-the-hedgehog https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v41/n20/katherine-rundell/co...