City Naturalist Gifts

"Isn't nature grand?"

'Let the creepy crawly hunt begin!'

Wildlife

"We've discovered they mate for life, as long as they don't discuss politics."

"Look, he just wants to apologize for scaring the daylights out of you yesterday. ... Mr. Squirrel? ..."

Rock - see you in a million years!

Caterpillar Portrait

"The invention of taxidermy."

Funky Facts: Monkeys.

Two kids watch a duck swim past their window in the rain

"Isn't the universe wonderful?" "I thought there was supposed to be fireworks."

Freaks of nature exhibit.

"I fell to the ground from a height of about two metres when I was born: My very first stunt!"

'If only Darwin could have seen this.'

Crocodile

"You're sure it was a Northern Bobwhite?"

"Would you look at that! New rooftop gardens, new community gardens: maybe the human race is not doomed after all..."

Today's lesson, the rainforest.

'I don't know about the ecosystem, but the economy seems to be on the upswing.'

'Hold it Billy - There are no praying mantises in school.'

"Good lord, Billingsworth. You've stumbled onto the legendary Lepidopterist Graveyard."

'You're right: Her radar signature is fabulous!'

Caliologist

"Tracks of black bear cub... Tracks of black bear mother... Tracks of Henry David Thoreau."

The life of penguins.

"Lord, thank you for guiding me through the whole 'evolution by natural selection' thing."

David Attenborough's Morning

'I've told you time and again, if you didn't east so fast, you wouldn't swallow so much flotsam.'

Maria Sibylla Merian

"But what's my motivation?"

'Why's the sky so high?' - 'So the birds don't bump their heads.'

'Don't move, there's a bee on your back.'

"I wouldn't take the name 'dog strangling vine' literally."

Whale Watch: 'They migrate here each winter in search of souvenirs.'

Bird Watching with Binoculars