A writer stumbles upon a tiny, motionless creature on a country road and, against all good advice, takes it home. The resulting memoir, Raising Hare, is a lovely meditation on nature and our relationship to it. And: have you ever invented a fake...
What do a baby eel, a baby salmon, a baby oyster, and a baby hare have in common? They all have names most people have never heard: elver, smolt, spat, and leveret. A cria is a baby llama or alpaca, from a Spanish word that refers to the rearing of...