The Hunt for the Golden Mole review of Richard Girling’s ‘entertaining and provocative’ quest

Richard Girling’s tale of an elusive burrowing mammal turns into a compelling study of humankind’s devastating cruelty to animals. In 1964, in Jowhar, Somalia, zoologist Alberto Simonetta stumbled on a disused bakery oven in which barn owls had made…


GR:  The majority of Earth’s creatures have not been identified.  The unknown species tend to be the smallest, but some belong to familiar groups.  For example, lepidopterists estimate that only about 10% of moth species have been identified.  Human impacts will extinguish many of them and there will be no evidence, not even a tiny pile of bones, to show that they ever existed.



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