Tami Parr’s newly published “Goats in America; A Cultural History” presents the long and multi-faceted relationship of these remarkable animals in America from the beginning of the colonial period right up to the present day.
Goats in America
Mammology
Living with Lynx
For those who live in areas that have been without such large animals as lynx, wolves and bears for decades and even centuries, the proposition of them being returned to their former ranges is one fraught with a range of emotions, some positive and others no so much. Dr. Jonny Horton’s “Living with Lynx” explores these as well as the research and arguments behind re-wilding.
Really Great Apes
As a naturalist, I have a particularly wide range of interests across the natural history spectrum. Be the subject at hand fish or fern, tree or turtle, badger or bird, I’m keen to learn more about it. However there has long been one particular branch of the tree of life that has never previously – […]
Hiding in Plain Sight
It was two o’clock in the morning. Having just arrived in England mid-afternoon of the preceding day, I was severely jet-lagged and just drifting off to sleep in a farm-field facing room of the Berkshire countryside hotel that would be my lodging for the first half of my stay in the UK. Suddenly, out of […]