So rather than the big, bold and beautiful, let me give you a sneak behind the scenes peak into one of ... I was shocked to see the leeches eating the toadlets Naturalist and all-round wildlife ...

It's a great time of year to meet with the giant Amazonian leech. Its kind is just emerging from the bottom muck, where they dug themselves in to wait out the three-month dry season. They'll be ...

When you think of a leech and its role in medicine, you could be forgiven for conjuring up images of medieval surgical theatres. But as viewers of the documentary Surgeons: At the Edge of Life ...