Nov
8
6:30pm
Quay Words presents: Black Ops and Beaver Bombing with Fiona Mathews and Tim Kendall
By Literature Works
UnlistedFrom seals’ frisky behaviour to red squirrels making their last stand in the battle against the greys, here are the mammals of Britain as you’ve never seen them before.
Wild boar that don’t exist – at least officially. Eccentric hedgehog behaviour. Mines inhabited by greater horseshoe bats (along with cavers, ravers and teenagers smoking unusual substances.) Water voles thriving in Glasgow’s East End – but wait, where’s the water? Fiona Mathews and Tim Kendall, a husband-and-wife team track down Britain’s enigmatic mammals as they live, thrive, or struggle to survive, often forced to fit around human habitation.
About the authors
Fiona and Tim live in the wilds of East Devon with their daughters, rabbits, and Labrador. Fiona is Professor of Environmental Biology at the University of Sussex and Chair of Mammal Conservation Europe. Tim teaches at the University of Exeter and writes about everything from poetry to pine martens. Their co-authored book Black Ops and Beaver Bombing: Adventures with Britain’s Wild Mammals (Oneworld) has been shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Writing On Conservation. Part natural history, part travel writing, and part bad jokes (what exactly did the beaver say to the tree?), the book criss-crosses Britain in search of eight mammal species that are threatened with extinction.
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