Chris Packham, the British wildlife presenter who said some silly things about pandas last September (see here), says he’s going to “lay-off panda bashing for a while”. This comes towards the end of a somewhat laddish interview that appeared yesterday,
The cunning of conservation genetics
Over in Galapagos, scientists have identified nine giant tortoises in captivity that appear to be descended from the long-extinct Floreana tortoise, a variety assumed to have disappeared more than 150 years ago. Charles Darwin visited Floreana in 1835 though the
The first panda cam
Here’s a question: what was the first panda cam? This phenomenon has become a remarkably popular, must-have feature of zoos with pandas. It is, after all, a negligible expense compared with the amount that Western zoos are prepared to pay