Helen Sullivan

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A Christmas beetle: in Europe they’re called ‘cockchafers’ | Helen Sullivan 2yrs
A garden snail: it knows the rose only by its smell and soft petals | Helen Sullivan 2yrs
An elephant seal: the nose does something no nose should do | Helen Sullivan 2yrs
The nature of a dragonfly: weigher of souls | Helen Sullivan 2yrs
A bat: In the city, they fly along routes that mirror roads | Helen Sullivan 2yrs
A bee: before it dies, its mouth opens and closes, kissing the ground | Helen Sullivan 2yrs
An oyster: they can hear the breaking waves | Helen Sullivan 2yrs
A praying mantis: she bites into her mate’s head like an apple and cleans her face ‘like a cat’... 2yrs
A Scottish Highland Cow: ‘On yonder hill there stood a coo’ | Helen Sullivan Scotland 2yrs
A donkey: ‘Better to be born a limpet in the sea than a load bearing donkey’ | Helen Sullivan 3yrs
Glow-worms: as soon as you think you’ve seen them, they blink off | Helen Sullivan 3yrs
Komodo dragons: 'the biggest, worst lizard of the modern day' | Helen Sullivan 3yrs
The African painted dogs that vote by sneezing and run on 'shadow puppet legs' | Helen Sullivan 3yrs
The nature of the sphinx moth: 'it uses its big-ass tongue to get this guy pollinated' | Helen... 3yrs
The nature of the narwhal: 'The one that is good at curving itself to the sky' | Helen Sullivan 3yrs
The nature of the Norwegian lemming: 'bloodthirsty, hairy berserkers' | Helen Sullivan Norway 3yrs
In the months my husband and I were apart, the world changed completely | Helen Sullivan 3yrs
Meet the Lebanese conservationist who’s fighting to save the striped hyena Lebanon 4yrs