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Conversations about animal navigation…
At a recent meeting of the Royal Institute of Navigation I met Jon Ward. Jon was brought up in Africa as a boy and spent much time roaming the countryside and going to distant villages out of sight of his home. We talked about Animal navigation and I told him that I thought that as…
Fiona Duncan’s Dolphin sighting
When I was 21 – many years ago – I was working as a cook on charter yachts in the Caribbean and America. For a short time, I joined a strange craft called Alianora, an ancient and battered wooden sailing yacht which we were taking from Newport, Rhode Island to Florida where we were to…
Humans and Horses
It is clear that animals which humans domesticated were all chosen because they were amenable to domestication. This happened at several sites all over the world and the animals were mostly the same. Dogs and horses seem to have always been the top of the list. The cow is an unlikely animal to have chosen…
Hefted Sheep
This is an English term for sheep that learn to live in a particular location who do not stray from their “land”. For us this is another piece of the jigsaw of how animals operate in the wild and know where “home” is. DEFRA ( Britain’s government Agency for Rural Affairs) asked ADAS to do…
The long Way (excerpt) by Bernard Moitessier
Bernard Moitessier sailed single handed around the world in 1969 and published his accounts of this trip in 1971 in the book “The long Way”. This description comes from this book. Moitessier was a very seasoned sailor when he undertook the single handed round the world challenge in 1969. He opted out of the race…
Animals finding their way home
One of our board members, Antonio Nafarrate, has brought this intriguing piece of news to our attention – snakes in the Everglades can find their way home. As we have always said, there is something going on with animals who find their way home and this is another example. I have a friend, Jill Moss who…