The ten species with the sharpest observed population declines in the last 25 years, and although some you may never have seen before, others may surprise you. If action to stop these declines isn’t taken soon, we may lose wildlife wonders such as starling murmurations and the haunting cuckoo call. Continue reading
Your body rebels against you and contorts in wriggles and giggles, you burst out in the most annoying, uncontrollable laughter and are suddenly at the mercy of your attacker. It’s the tickle. What the hell is happening? Continue reading
“Did you know that koalas get high on eucalyptus leaves?” This question was posed to me at a flat party last night, after I was introduced to an (admittedly drunk) guy as a zoologist. Continue reading
We all time travel. By rising from our beds in the morning and returning to them at night, we have spent a day travelling in the present from the past into the future. When we start thinking about it too hard, it becomes difficult to wrap our heads around- is time moving through us? Is … Continue reading
Flight of a barn swallow 