There is some debate as to which small monkey this actually is:
the pygmy marmoset? (caution very small indeed)
or the tarsier, voted the official world’s cutest animal in 1997 despite brazenly overdoing the big eye ‘thing’ in my ra[…]

or When o When Will Attenborough Topl’d from his Siege Satanic Be?
you watch a DA nature prog and it’s beautifully and daringly filmed of course, and here’s the hypnotic whisperer tellin us that THESE FISH rise to the SEA’S S[…]

INCIDENTALLY WE HAVE A CLUB ON NEXT THURSDAY AT THE POLAR BEAR.
Ahem.
Lion of the North! They’re not actually white you know, more a kind of grubby cream colour. They devour seals and mints in equal measure. Perennial British wildlife TV favour[…]

(NB the #18 animal will appear soon, we have commissioned an expert in the field to write a piece and will publish it out of sequence!)
My work has been on a drive to get everyone to complete their profiles on the Company Intranet. This is 3000 peopl[…]

lonely aquatic dinosaur seeks similar for laughs, moonlit walks. no smokers or stegosauri
i. all other lake monsters have better names viz ogopogo, mamlambo, bessie oh wait ii. at least mamlambo (“half-fish, half-horse monster”) EATS PEO[…]

This morning I met a woman who claims her dog can find its way home. On the bus. Getting both on and off at the right stop.
We’ve all seen Lassie, but I for one am sceptical. If any canine scientists out there would like to shed light on this p[…]

Who knows the secrets of the giant squid? Nobody! Well, nobody knows all of them – nobody really knows how big they can get or much about their life cycles and habits way down in the ocean murk. What we know about them comes mostly from their c[…]

Pete’s post on giant pandas reminded me of something I’ve often thought about when contemplating our rabbits, namely: is cuteness an evolutionary strategy? Pete’s right that in every other sense the giant panda seems to be an animal[…]

We love the underdog right? Nature doesn’t. The history of evolution (and one would imagine slightly less intelligent design creationism) is full of animals which did not quite make it. The dodo for example was a big stupid evolutionary backwat[…]

Boring admin post for all the regular posters on FT: we’re starting to use titles! Currently it’s only Blog 7, but when the blogs are tweaked to match the front page a bit better, we will probably turn on titles on all the blogs. To help […]