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Helen Sullivan

Helen Sullivan

The Guardian

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A swan: ‘I have looked upon these brilliant creatures, and now my heart is sore’

24.03.2025 10

The Guardian

Helen Sullivan

A beaver: to get attention they will slap the water with their tails

10.03.2025 10

The Guardian

Helen Sullivan

A frog: their eyes are so sensitive they can detect a single photon of light

24.02.2025 6

The Guardian

Helen Sullivan

A manatee: imagine eating lettuce under water

03.02.2025 20

The Guardian

Helen Sullivan

A hadeda: nothing can quite capture the sound of these birds, because it’s mainly just rude noise

20.01.2025 10

The Guardian

Helen Sullivan

A cicada: ‘What cicadas leave behind is a kind of crystallised memory’

Of all the languages’ words for cicada, Croatian’s might be the best: cvrčak, pronounced: tvr-chak. The sound it makes is tvr-chi tvr-chi. I have a...

30.12.2024 8

The Guardian

Helen Sullivan

A sea anemone: I have pronounced their name incorrectly most of my life

In her book Theatres of Glass, Rebecca Stott writes about the Victorian craze for home aquariums – which swept London in the 1850s, with people...

16.12.2024 5

The Guardian

Helen Sullivan