We love little critters when the real world gets too wild | Liam Williams

The excitement generated by the sighting of a pine marten reveals our contradictory attitude towards animalsLast week, a 25-second, low-quality video of a pine marten sniffing the ground caused a flurry of excitement in the media. My initial reaction to this story – as to all such ostensibly low-consequence, fauna-based stories – was: WHY IS THERE SO MUCH EXPOSURE BEING GIVEN TO THIS GLORIFIED RAT WHEN THERE IS REAL HUMAN SUFFERING AND INJUSTICE GOING ON IN THIS WORLD? Then, when I&r