Tetrapod Zoology at the United Nations Science Summit 2022

Today (September 27th 2022), I’m speaking at the United Nations Science Summit panel Knowing and Protecting Life on Earth Starts with Natural History and Science Innovation…

I don’t have time today to talk about the presentation itself (that will come later), but I make several points: on education and outreach, on accessibility of knowledge, on the importance of a historical approach to natural history, and on the universal appeal of amazing animals to all people of all backgrounds. I’m one of a team of people on this panel; the others are highly respected experts on biodiversity, conservation and nature writing: namely Dr Ursula Valdez (tropical avian ecologist and trans-cultural educator), Dr Tom Fleischner (author and director emeritus of The Natural History Institute), Dr Dita Cahyani (marine biodiversity scientist and innovator), and Dr Nalini Nadkarni (forest canopy pioneer and conservationist). The panel was arranged by Dr Seabird McKeon and Dr Michele Weber, and will be led and convened by Dr McKeon.

Meeting the Hayling Island Jungle cat

Once again I’m giving you something from the archives, since there’s just no chance at all to produce anything new right now. Here, then, is a TetZoo ver 3 article that was originally published there in 2013 (that version is here). Ironically, that 2013 article was itself a republishing of a version from 2009…

The Incredible South American Maned Wolf

Inspired by my recent article on South American wild dogs, I went to the trouble of digging out a very brief TetZoo ver 2 article I published in 2007 on the remarkable and beautiful 'fox on stilts', the Maned wolf Chrysocyon brachyurus (said article is here). My aim was to augment and update that text such that it might be a useful one-stop review on this animal.