RT @mslucycooke@twitter.com

Fans of #NatureTable might enjoy meeting this tree porcupine as much as I did. Those quills are seriously sharp though. I pity the male. Porcupine romance is a prickly affair ⁦@sueperkins@twitter.com⁩

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Background while working this morning, new series of #NatureTable from #BBCRadio4 - fascinating section on herring gulls in the first episode if like me you are a #BadBirdwatcher

Right, must concentrate on work properly now!

RT @mslucycooke@twitter.com

And this is the all-female species of gecko that has dispensed with males altogether by evolving into a self-cloning sisterhood. They are great colonisers, able to reproduce at twice the rate of sexual species without the 'evolutionary wastage' of males #naturetable

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