To the Browns – an amazing family of naturalists… and come to think of it, an amazing family as well.
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Tortoise, Galápagos giant
© Frans Lanting/FLPA
Nature’s Babies is an unashamed celebration of the fully technicoloured glory of the natural world itself. The seemingly infinite variety of different baby shapes and sizes is of course down to the cleverest and most powerful beast of them all: evolution. What else would have created babies that at one end of the spectrum are impossibly cute, yet at the other end would not look out of place in the most off-the-wall science fiction novels?
Parenting skills can vary enormously from the non-existent to the lavish. For some animals being born is a rude awakening into a