As you can tell if you know me personally or just by looking on this website, you would know I am ever so fascinated by the natural world, especially the animal side of it. Recently, butterflies have caught my attention a lot more. According to the Butterfly Conservation there are 59 species of butterfly commonly …
In restarted my university life last September at Reading University. I am studying zoology and luckily for me the campus is huge, beautiful and full of wildlife. My bedroom window looks out onto the Reading University lake and I can see a great number of birds from here let alone when I’m down by it. …
I wouldn’t be surprised if you had no idea that speciesism was a word or if it even existed. Even writing this blog post, the word is underlined red like it’s some sort of spelling mistake. The definition of speciesism is the idea that certain animals are seen to be superior to others. Animals in …
There are many different ways to separate the different kinds of tarantulas into how we both describe them and how their care differs. Whether it be New or Old World, which means from the Americas or not, or how different species, genera or families act. Tarantulas also differ on where they like to spend their …
This is the Hawaiian goose, Branta sandvicensis or more commonly known as the nene and it is beautiful. There is no rarer goose in the world and at one point during the 1950s was perhaps one of the rarest animals. In 1952 there were only 30 individuals in the world. That is a ridiculously and …
After staying in a hostel in Sandakan in the western part of Sabah, part of the Malaysian side of Borneo. I took a Grab (Southeast Asia’s cheaper and better version of Uber) to the Labuk Bay Proboscis Monkey Sanctuary. Labuk Bay After close to an hour taxi ride, which was still extremely cheap, I arrived …
As soon as I got off the short flight from Kota Kinabalu to Sandakan which is on the other side of Sabah in Borneo, I immediately caught a Grab (really cheap taxi app that I wouldn’t recommend highly enough) to Sepilok, home to both the Orangutan Rehabilitation and Sun Bear Conservation centres. I have nothing …
Of the 18 species of penguin, over half are listed as vulnerable or at higher risk! All penguins, apart from the Galapagos penguin, dwell in the southern hemisphere. Perhaps the first thing you think of when you think of Antarctica, the majority of penguin species actually live in the southern parts of Africa, South America, …
Three Kruger National Park rangers have been arrested on suspicion of poaching rhinos that they were ‘protecting’. “Slowly but surely we are coming to grips with people within our ranks who are sabotaging our efforts in this campaign. We still have confidence in those who are committed and loyal; and would like to encourage them to …
First of all Heidelberg is such a beautiful town. It’s not a city but it is very big, it sits in a valley between two mountains, allowing a layer of fog to settle, making it annoyingly to get clear photos most of the time but equally giving it a sort of mythical look, especially as …