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Voles groom one another, a new book shows Credit: Adrian Coleman On the face of it, we love animals – endless wildlife documentaries, cute videos of kittens in a brandy glass, colourful kiddies’ picture books about rabbits “with imposing floppy ears”, and all the cheerful anthropomorphism of Beatrix Potter, Rudyard Kipling and Walt Disney. Look closer, however, as Henry Mance has done, and in actuality, “to live alongside animals means to kill them”. In ancient Egypt, 70 million animals were bred as sacrificial offerings. Imagine if the pharaohs had had breech-loading rifles, with which Americans decimated bison herds; or grenade harpoon cannons, to empty the oceans of whales. Wild animal populations have fallen by two thirds in the past half-century. Pesticides have destroyed insects, which has had an impact on pollination. Worms are rarely found in over-ploughed soil. Fishing nets entangle dolphins and seals; plastic debris chokes swans and marine creatures. Orang-

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