Two people now have sent me a link to this story, first appearing in the Moscow Times but re-written by Stuff.co.nz – either by their Russian correspondent, or maybe by someone in their 500-strong cute animal stories department – about a fox that shot a hunter in Belarus. Apparently the hunter took a long shot […]
Category: Animals
It’s 9pm and you’re heading for town. You look good, you’re keen for a biggie, and you’re a prionoplus reticularis or huhu beetle like this handsome brown fella here. Coco’s, you think – I’ll go to Coco’s for a drink and some kai – so you point your nose in the right direction, set out, […]
The fun thing about having naturalist friends – naturalist, not naturist; though Dave you do have a good all over tan – is being able to tap their actual proper expertise around animals from time to time. A while back I got sent one of those rather silly internet rumours / stories / bits of […]
Apologies to anyone who saw this on my Facebook already, but I thought it was worth sharing here: it’s the shark that my friends and I found washed up on Ninety Mile beach these summer holidays. He (let’s call it a he, though I have no idea how to determine the sex of a shark, […]
Auckland has been disgustingly hot and humid this week – which equals bad sleep and mosquitos. The damp means they’ve been breeding like crazy, but you HAVE to leave the windows open at night because it’s so roasting – which means the little buggers waft in at all hours and bite you. But lying awake […]
Dave has the coolest job of anyone I know. A conservation biologist, he’s spent years at a time deep in the jungles of Cambodia and Vietnam counting and studying animals that are – by definition, being endangered – hard to find. He’s like a friendly Colonel Kurtz, and the only person I know who can […]
Pottering is the great temptation of work-from-homers and I’ve recently found a far, far too engrossing place in which to potter. A froth of green passionfruit vine has totally engulfed one of the fences at our house and I can’t stop poking my nose in it. A while back I wrote in Metro about being […]