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The things we did for fun before telly and cinema do not bear thinking about. You might imagine our Victorian ancestors enjoyed a night at the music hall, but what they really liked was a good, gory dissection.
Anatomy lectures, at which surgeons sliced up a human body to show its workings, were packed out with medical students and everyone else who had a strong stomach for intestines. Demand for fresh cadavers was so high that doctors ran out of executed prisoners and relied on grave robbers.
Some body snatchers even stalked the streets, murdering people to sell their corpses for anatomy demonstrations. Talk about making your own entertainment.
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‘I’ve seen a rhino shed tears’ – Kenya s animals through the eyes of its rangers
With a new documentary set to shine a light on Kenya’s Ol Pejeta Conservancy, four conservation heroes speak about their vital work
24 January 2021 • 2:52pm
Secret Safari: Into the Wild tells the stories of those working on the Ol Pejeta Conservancy
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It’s hard to believe a rhino can feel anything through its thick, leathery armour, but when caretaker Joseph Wachira gave his docile dependent a tickle, I swear the 1.5-ton animal smiled. Soft and pliable, like an underbaked pastry, the skin was like nothing I had imagined; then again, patting a wild animal whose mood can swing like a pendulum was not a scenario I had visualised either.
What it s like to be run over by a Rhino: Dramatic new series Secret Safari, narrated by Fleabag s Hot Priest Andrew Scott, takes you out on patrol with the staff at a Kenyan nature reserve - who reveal some very hairy moments
Stephen Ngulu is a vet at Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya - a protected area
He stars in the new Channel 4 wildlife series Secret Safari: Into The Wild
The new series follows the life-or-death dramas that unfold daily at Ol Pejeta