Here's the real reason why you can't ride a zebra.| Upworthy
We met on a dry June morning, just after the sun tried to find colour in the parched grass. I had had no breakfast. She was listening for hers. And she pounced – the exquisite fox pounce: lig…| A Walk with Wildlife
Thin blue glass. They have been relentlessly blue, and the ground is like bleached iron after our driest spring for decades. If nature was the product of a single instant, Surrey would be a desert. But winter bequeathed spring a high water table. From that, or perhaps just dousing from morning dew, the fields remain […]| A Walk with Wildlife
Small grey paws on a hot shadowed road. That was over a decade ago now – meetings with the grey fox Urocyon cinereoargenteus, the cousin-that-isn’t to the red fox of the north. I spent summer 2014 in the hot, hot, remote and horsefly-haunted Mexico / Guatemala border region, tracking jaguars and tapir through a jungle […]| A Walk with Wildlife
How finely can nature be sliced? Imagine a thousand species in your lounge – it would be mayhem unless they keep a polite distance through occupying different chairs. In the wild, divisions a…| A Walk with Wildlife
1. When a stranger is in sight, sit down. My original blog was called ‘The Sitting Fox’ – for a good reason. They spend a remarkable amount of time on their haunches, sometimes wi…| A Walk with Wildlife
Spring is here. What does that bring to mind for you?| Artisans Cooperative
Learn how to protect chickens from predators with Somerzby’s practical tips and strategies to keep your flock safe and secure.| Somerzby
So Long, and Thanks for All the Canids| The Last Word On Nothing
With Mark Rosenblatt’s play Giant currently on at the Royal Court, Roald Dahl’s monstrosities have been in the news again. His anti-Semitism is well documented, and anyone familiar with the short story collection Switch Bitch would have a hard time defending him from charges of gross misogyny too. My recollection, from a master’s thesis I […]| Somewhere Boy
In this episode of Naturally Speaking, Mar Pineda catches up with fellow Masters of Research (MRes) student Bugge Vick to talk about some of his field work. Bugge’s research project focused on the South American grey fox (Lycalopex griseus), recently introduced onto the Falkland Islands – a remote archipelago in the South Atlantic. In […]| Naturally Speaking