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Wild Tales from the VillageIn pictures...

A year in the life of an extraordinary village, hidden away in the French countryside.

  • Red squirrels will eat mushrooms and toadstools like the fly agaric.
  • To help cope with times of food shortage, red squirrels will often store surplus mushrooms and toadstools in tree branches.
  • To help navigate their way through their home ranges, field mice will use small bright objects such as leaves as signposts.
  • As many as 5,000 spines help protect hedgehogs as they travel up to two kilometres each night foraging.
  • Built high on a rocky outcrop, this is an ancient fortified village in South-west France.
  • There are many medieval villages in South-west France, most dating back several hundred years.
  • The common name of the edible dormouse comes from the ancient Roman times.
  • Adult male boar can weigh over 100 kg and are armed with sharp tusks that can be up to 10 cm in length.
  • Stone martens have some unusual dietary tastes… including crawling into motorcars and chewing ignition cables.
  • Red squirrel on a fly agaric mushroom.

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