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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.

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Adult male boar can weigh over 100 kg and are armed with sharp tusks that can be up to 10 cm in length.

These are used to defend the group from predators and for fighting.

  • 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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