Chris Packham

Never mind the Buzzards- here’s the Really Wild Life

50 things you didn’t know about wildlife-were too afraid to ask and probably wished you’d never learned!
Why do lizards sneeze?
Why do Glow-worms glow?
Why were dinosaurs so big?
What is a Mollymawk?
Did you know that there is only one truly blue bird?
Could you guess that the oldest living things on earth are still thriving just around your corner?

This lively, informative and entertaining illustrated talk is a romp through some of the most peculiar, amazing, disgusting or confounding aspects of the world’s wildlife.

Using his own superb photographs, Chris Packham relates his encounters with weird and wonderful creatures and with tales of their strange lives, regales young and old alike.

But it’s not all nonsense, for behind nature’s bizarre there is always a good sound gem of biological reason and Chris uses his exceptional skills as a populariser of science to enjoyably explain why Badgers are so sparing with their ‘poo’ and why it makes good sense for some birds to eat snot! Birds Mammals Insects Reptiles Plants are all examined and explained with Chris’s usual pragmatic attitude and dressed down to earth with his irreverent humour.