I have been fotunate to have been able to travel around the world, visiting zoos, volunteering with conservation projects and meeting scientists in various fields. Before I began writing my blog posts I had very few ideas of where to go in life after finishing my degree and I can safely say not a lotContinue reading “What Next?”
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Science-based Zoo Animal Husbandry
Zoos are largely debated subject. Do we need Zoos? Should animals be kept in captivity? can a wild animals needs be fully met in a captive enviroment? Its an argument which will last forever. However, as zoos do exist, they need to be the absolute best that they can be for the species they houseContinue reading “Science-based Zoo Animal Husbandry”
Evolving Museum Exhibitions
Many of us remember wandering around universities staring at the plethora of skeletons, suffed animals and fossils. However, the way museums exhibit their collections seems to be changing to better engage and educate their visitors. Liverpool world museum has a huge range of exhibits and an extensive natural history collection. Dead vs. Alive Liverpool WorldContinue reading “Evolving Museum Exhibitions”
Teaching My Friends to Rockpool
Rockpooling is an activity a lot of people fondly look back on from their younger days on holiday. I remember rumaging around rockpools on family holidays in North Wales with a net, attempting to catch small fish, shrips and crabs. Looking back it was quite a destructive activity. Nowadays I venture underneath the Menai BridgeContinue reading “Teaching My Friends to Rockpool”
A Review: Copenhagen Zoo
Zoos and the role they play has become hottely debated over the past few years with various media headlines reporting excapes, neglect and zoos inability to replicate the natural enviroment that species live in. One of these zoos was Copenhagen Zoo. Disclaimer: This blog post is a personal review of Copenhagen zoo. All views areContinue reading “A Review: Copenhagen Zoo”
We can all be Scientists!
The improvemtent of mobile phone cameras, the increased ease of global travel and the better knowledge and ease of access to wildlife guides has made it easier than ever before for every day people with limited scientifical knowledge to be able to go out and identfy wildlife on their travels. Citizen science is the colectionContinue reading “We can all be Scientists!”
Monkeying Around
I visited Trentham Monkey forest on a field trip for my primatology module to conduct behaviour observations and collect data on Barbary macaque social behaviours. About The Monkey Forest Trentham Monkey forest is home to around 140 free roaming Barbary Macaques which live in a large fenced forrest enclosure. In their large forested enclosure theyContinue reading “Monkeying Around”
About the Blog
Over the past few years I have been fortunate enough to have traveled and worked around the world furthering my career in the Zoological field. I grew up loving nature and searching for all sorts of creatures in my garden and by my late teens realised this was the route in life I wanted toContinue reading “About the Blog”
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