Latest articles by Joe Dunne
Behaviour
You probably think Bugs Bunny is a pretty confident character. But I think we can all agree that real-life rabbits are quite the opposite. Timid and shy, rabbits often prefer to be left alone munching on hay over being c…
News and Comment
If you’re anything like us on cold autumn mornings, we bet many of you would prefer to stay wrapped up warm in bed, instead of having to get up to a cold house and de-ice the car. In fact, maybe we should just sleep thro…
News and Comment
If you’ve been scrolling straight past all the Brexit news and onto the more interesting stuff, as I have, you might have read the viral news story about a woman who left a sign in her local park, encouraging people to f…
Environment
The world is heating up, the ice caps are melting, the forests are burning... it’s all a bit doom and gloom as far as the environment is concerned. Thankfully, we are slowly coming round to the idea that each and every o…
Environment
Almost every day now there is a story on the news about climate change - the scientific consensus is pretty clear that human-driven climate change is a fact, and it is already affecting everyone worldwide. However, perha…
Cats
In this final part of our series on zoonotic infections, we’re going to look at rarer or emerging zoonoses – those where the zoonotic risk is perhaps less well known.
