What is Animalian?

Animalian is a blog dedicated to animals in the news. But really, it’s about people.

Everything we write about animals is about humans. It tells you about human interests, aspirations and behaviour.

As far as we know so far, humans are the species that have modified this planet more than any other, and our impact has affected just about every other animal we find here.

There are still new discoveries in remote places, but as soon as we find them, we’ve already changed them. And as soon as they are named, catalogued, and studied, they have entered our story.

But then there is another side of it.

In terms of biomass, we’re not that significant. There is some statistic about how insect biomass dwarfs human flesh on this planet, but the numbers do not matter.

The point is that there is a hell of a lot of wildlife out there that is autonomous of our existence, some of it a lot closer to you than you would think.

Our presence may have modified it, but that does not equate to control. We are also formed, constrained and modified by the wildlife that surrounds us.

So everything we discover about life beyond humanity tells us something more about the world that forms us. And as our world changes, so do we.

How does Animalian report?

We mainly report on animal news items that have hit the mainstream press. We are not a science or environmental blog, we are looking at the stories that gain general interest.

On every story we cover, we will pool information from several reliable media sources and offer our own version.

We will also report on animal news in specialist publications that we think should have been picked up by the mainstream.

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