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It’s St George’s Day today; here in England, this is the feast day of our Patron Saint. We share him with a number of other countries including Moldova, Palestine and (perhaps unsurprisingly) Georgia, but we are particularly ‘into’ patron saints in the UK; our Union Flag is a mishmash of the flags of Saints George, [...]
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Although I’ve been hiding in my cave for the last month, I promise I haven’t gone away altogether. Just been attending to duties and teaching the Masked Bandits to high-five – proof may be posted here at a later date. Our Anthrozoology facebook page (because we’re cool) is often updated with interesting stories and links [...]
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“The Etymology of Entomology” This time I have a deadline and a presentation pending. So, sorry about the lack of original finks this evening. However, I will leave you in the capable hands of Dr George McGavin, who I have been fortunate enough to meet and whose fascination with all things creepy and crawly is [...]
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Extract from ‘Animals Like Us’ (National Geographic). I had a discussion in mind for the video above, but then I found out that Hal Herzog wrote it over a year ago. Nothing like being behind the times… If you don’t have time to watch or read either of the above, here’s the gist: Hamadryas baboons [...]
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It’s only Tuesday and I’m already having a bad week. It’s got to the point where I’ve had to take up yoga. Yoga! But even that, the centering, the focusing, the calm, doesn’t seem to have perked up my tired but ever-racing brain. So, today’s fink is about melancholia, and specifically, how we remedy it. [...]
