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Consorting with beasts
22 June 2016 • 956 words • Reportage & Criticism
Considering what we do routinely to our fellow creatures – incarcerating them, castrating them, filching their mother’s milk, slaughtering them, and eating their flesh – practices that… more»
Where the eagle flies
20 July 1998 • 1,017 words • City of Words
In my home town there’s a monument to a man who tried to fly. It was in the year 1739, according to a marker on… more»
Lost and found in Amazonia
22 June 1998 • 1,006 words • City of Words
Two weeks ago the latest lost tribe of the Amazon – two hundred strong and living in a dozen communal huts concealed beneath the forest canopy –… more»
Labour’s white rhino at London Zoo
10 August 1998 • 1,179 words • City of Words
Ken Livingstone has announced that he wants Regent’s Park Zoo to be free. Not for the animals, who will still be confined, but for the… more»
Homage to the dung beetle
May 1996 • 1,230 words • City of Words
Pathologically polyphiloprogenitive though we are, human s are vastly outnumbered by insects. Consider this. Insects are a hundred million years older than us – older than… more»
A new acquisition for the national gallery of nature
19 October 1998 • 997 words • City of Words
I first went up Yr Wyddfa – Snowdon to the English – at the age… more»
A hawkmoth by moonlight
6 June 1996 • 1,248 words • City of Words
Broadcasting policy in Britain is under the direction of people with no vision: the cut in funding for BBC World Service radio, the country’s one… more»
The whales of Nunavut
22 February 1999 • 1,095 words • City of Words
A jetliner on a transpolar night flight develops a mechanical fault. Forced to land in a snowstorm on an ice-bound landing strip, it touches down… more»
Testament of an African naturalist
21 April 1997 • 1,057 words • City of Words
At the Royal Geographical Society in London recently one of the world’s greatest living naturalists, Jonathan Kingdon, was celebrating the publication of his field guide… more»
Felling trees and eating chimpanzees
8 February 1999 • 1,214 words • City of Words
I’ve never eaten chimp. Probably you haven’t either. And as of this week there’s one more reason not to. Pan troglodytes, the chimpanzee, it appears… more»
