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An Oxford barrister lived as a badger for six weeks, eating worms

Ellsworth Toohey
Mar 04, 2026
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Being a Beast: Adventures Across the Species Divide, by Charles Foster

A fox swiped a chicken leg right out of Charles Foster’s hand, and he counted it among the best moments of his life. Foster is an Oxford don and practicing barrister who set out to experience the world as various animals and wrote a book in 2016 about it called Being a Beast, as profi…

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