#wildlife

A male frigate bird blows up a wild red pouch on his neck. He can keep it puffed up for hours. It is his way of impressing the girls. ↗

— Julie Murphy

#children-s-books #courtship #frigate-bird #mating #nature

One researcher just determined that African and Indian elephants make each other sick. When a new animal or plant is introduced to a habitat bad things happen. The biggest danger to native wildlife is foreign wildlife. ↗

— Robert T. Bakker

#animal #bad #biggest #danger #determined

All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call the progress of civilization. ↗

— Gerald Durrell

#being #call #civilization #danger #exterminated

Almost all these hotspots around the world, most have been destroyed to the point where there is no wildlife and very little of the natural world left. ↗

— Jim Fowler

#around #been #destroyed #left #little

We combine our three packs of pasta for dinner – pesto. We tip the dried stuff into a pan, add water and simmer. We try it, looking at each other with disbelief as it hits the tastebuds. ‘It’s pesto, Jim, but not as we know it,’ I say. ‘Fascinating,’ says Lou, unsmiling humouring my Star Trek reference, while wincing at the foul food. (And what made me say that? Is there such a thing as a dad-joke vacuum that needs to be filled, even in the wild?) ↗

— Fiona Wood

#camping-food #dad-joke #dad-jokes #fiona-wood #food

Well, my son really loves wildlife. And everytime he draws a polar bear I want to tell him there probably won't any by the time... he's my age. That's kinda hard to deal with. ↗

— Thom Yorke

#any #bear #by the time #deal #draws

I had travelled pretty widely around the world even before then, so I knew where to go to film wildlife. ↗

— Jim Fowler

#before #even #film #go #had

When I went to Australia, I went shark diving. It was crazy. It was called 'extreme' shark diving because even though we were in cages, we literally could touch the sharks swimming by. They were huge and I'm terrified of sharks. Then I went to a wildlife park and held kangaroos. That was nice. ↗

— Taylor Lautner

#because #called #could #crazy #diving

Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man. ↗

— Stewart Udall

#fact #in fact #man #plans #protect

I would never dream, for example, of going to The States to photograph your wildlife. ↗

— Nigel Dennis

#example #for example #going #i #never