Bad Zoology

We are the extinction level event.

So, by now it’s pretty clear that humans will be responsible for the sixth extinction level event, which will occur when 75% of Earth’s organisms become extinct. Every year, between 10,000 and 100,000 species are thought to die out, because we need our avocados double wrapped. So the question is obvious: how do we rank…

Taxonomists are the enemy.

This is an Atlantic puffin. The photo is bad because I took it. This is the quintessential puffin. Tell someone to think of a puffin, and they think of this. Probably less blurry, but still. This is Puffinus puffinus. Bad photo, same reason. By now, one or both of you may have realised that there…


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