I recently found out that on this planet of ours there exist people, actual living, walking, breathing people, who claim that birds are robotic...

A lot of art created via AI is truly awful – see the example above. I used a free version of Hotpot – they...

John Whitehead (1860-1899) was a British explorer who once a year starting in 1885 tried to climb Mount Kinabalu and finally succeeded in 1888,...

In his book Tales of a Tribe, author Mark Cocker describes an unfortunate event befalling a friend. One night while camping in the Himalayas,...

Memorable encounters with Mammals Part II It’s generally reckoned that there are more deer in Britain today than there were in the Middle Ages,...

The word “endemic” has always seemed rather vague to me. Oxford Languages offers this definition: 2. (of a plant or animal) native and restricted...

Ardent readers of this blog would realise by now that I have been chronicling a few days spent in Guyana last year – I...

The Varied Tit is a rare species in Shanghai – this was the first time I ever saw one, even though it is relatively...