In a blog for the LRB, Robert Hanks notes that grey squirrels round Hackney used to be timid, but now are evolving:
into larger, more aggressive animals, spurred on by a diet rich in our discarded protein. I watch one squatting on a bin, food clutched in its little hands, glaring back at me, and it hardly feels like nature at all.
Tiny ‘functionally extinct’ frog could be saved after scientists sequence
genome
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Corroboree frog belongs to 100m-year-old family of amphibians but is now
found only in the puddles and peat bogs of Kosciuszko national park
Scientists h...
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