Next week I have the privilege of speaking in the meeting room of the Linnean Society of London in Burlington House, Piccadilly. It is, of course, the same place in which the papers on natural selection by Charles Darwin and
Fictional facts
Last week, I received a copy of a new panda publication – 100 Facts About Pandas by Claudia O’Doherty, David O’Doherty and Mike Ahern. It is an extraordinary little book. It has no introduction, no preface, no prologue, no epilogue
No sex please, we’re pandas
Why do pandas find themselves the butt of so many jokes? I think I’ve come up with the answer. On Friday, I spent the entire day at the Zoological Society of London’s library on the edge of Regent’s Park, where