Richard Collins: Not quite zebras crossing, but animals are taking to city life

Foxes, peregrines, and even mountain lions, are setting up shop inside the lion's den

Richard Collins: "The fox, with bounties on its head, had been persecuted for centuries. It thrives now in city parks and suburbs." Picture: Yui Mok/PA Wire

The wolf shall dwell with the lamb and the leopard shall lie down with the kid — Isaiah.

The peregrine was "more fortunate than the eagles", wrote Richard Ussher and Robert Warren in 1900: "The bird fairly holds its own wherever cliffs afford it suitable haunts."