I have taken the perfect photo of my dad and his dog

Would be so cool to but I’d be self funded and would have to get the time off work, so unfortunately unable to…

Reminder to all in the Bristol area/surrounding environs that I'll be talking about the future of #WildBoar in Britain at the gorgeous Belmont Estate next Wednesday evening!

Tickets here 👉 belmont.estate/events/

This book is sublime.

That is all.

RESGATANDO JAVALI INGRATO YouTube video by Wende Crispim

Blueskyers, what do you think - is the creature in this (hilarious) video a #WildBoar or a peccary? Looks like the latter to me… www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdhT...

SUPER interesting new paper here from scientists in Argentina which find that termites incorporated megafauna bones into their nests & may have thinned out the Pleistocene fossil record in parts of South America as a result!

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Thank you so much Anand!

Killer whales and dolphins seen hunting together in rare video Researchers say the footage, captured near the North-West Pacific coast, is the first recorded evidence of the two species working together.

The wonders of our world are infinite
www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

At Chaparri Bear Reserve in Peru (bonus trip while out here for work). Their habituated peccaries take belly rubs therefore we must assume wild boar would also enjoy them

Currently obsessed with this new paper which infers that North America is missing a large bioturbating herbivore which basically means that feral hogs are ground sloths in pig’s clothing
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

That is so cool, I’ve never seen that before!

Sorry Lynda, I don’t run the website! @walklistencreate.org can you help?

Write About Walking – In the Dark

Just 7 days left to enter your poem or flash story on the theme of “In the dark” to the @walklistencreate.org writing competition!
(And I’m a judge 😍)
write.walklistencreate.org/wr_instance/...

Frustrating when you come across a glaring error in a well-reviewed book that makes you wonder if other “facts” therein are wrong too. Thylacine ancestors in Australia date back at least 30 mya? Maybe getting confused w/ dingo. Vital for authors to check & re-check text before publication…

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I did not want to see the news tonight that Jane Goodall has died.

But what a life. What a human. What an impact she had on our understanding of our fellow Earthlings and their right to life. We are so much poorer for having lost her.

And yes I have been known to walk into glass doors at times

When your fiancé is reading a biography of Francis Crick, who was married to your great aunt Odile, and points out this bit and says “Look, your accident gene runs in the family”

Congratulations!

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The funny thing about this article is that… it’s not a very big number??

Yes - it doesn’t seem like a very big number to me!

I am so glad you fought for that

I was utterly charmed by @bsbicountries.bsky.social’s quest to find a medley of Britain’s endemic species. Also, YES to Pokémon references in nature writing

Words to Light the Dark: Writing the worlds of other animals How do we bridge the experiential gap between that of humans and other animals with writing that feels intelligible to us, while reaching for the differences in how other animals sense, think, and act...

Online this Tuesday evening. Delving into the exciting & urgent question of how we can include the lives & experiences of nonhumans in writing w/ fellow author Emma Geen, hosted by @walklistencreate.org! Tickets here:
walklistencreate.org/walkingevent...

Books that intelligently poke at our complex relationship with wild nature, should be compulsory reading - this is one of them.
@chantallyons.bsky.social immerses herself in the world of wild boar and those people with an opinion on their growing presence.

www.waterstones.com/book/groundb...

Chantal Lyons, Sophie Pavelle & Peter Cairns: Landscape, and Beavers, and Boars (Oh, My!) From Wed 20 Aug - Sharing their deep understanding of what we're lucky to have in nature and how to repair the damage done, Wainwright Prize-­shortlisted author of Groundbreakers, Chantal Lyons, To Ha...

Believe there are still tickets going for my panel with @sophiepavs.bsky.social & Peter Cairns at the Edinburgh Book Fest tomorrow morning - if you’re around, come! www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...

Two brilliant new reads on coexistence with creatures great & small - @adamweymouth.bsky.social on wolves, & @julianhoffman.bsky.social on fellow humans, bears, wrens, swallows & beyond in Greece ❤️

I wondered that but they don’t seem to look like the photos I can find online?