As a former card-carrying member of the Glutton Club, Charles Darwin was pretty unsqueamish when it came to sampling strange flesh, but he did not at all relish the idea of eating calf foetus while travelling is South America. Fortunately, it turned out to be something decidedly more appetising: We did not reach the posta… Continue reading Darwin eats an excellent cat
Month: June 2010
How to get a large animal into a small boat
Specifically, a cow.
Darwin performs a blind test… on some condors
...to see how well they can smell.
The Falklands fox: foolish dog of the south
Concerning Darwin's dealings with this tragic creature.
06-Dec-1834: Darwin brains his future eponymous fox
Darwin kills a rare and inquisitive creature, since named after its collector.
Reading Darwin's first masterpiece
It's like confessing a murder. I have been a self-confessed 'Darwin groupie' for almost a quarter of a century, yet, until this year, I had never read what is supposed to be his most accessible book, 'The Voyage of the Beagle'.
Ethereal nature
In which I rather naively try to photograph bats in my back garden.