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Monty and Nellie in the jewel garden

Monty Don is slammed for advising that people should not buy peat-based products

by MikeB
October 29, 2020May 17, 2021

NEWS AND VIEWS (COMMENT): People in the business of making money from plants and gardening have acted unreasonably and in my honest opinion stupidly in… Read More »Monty Don is slammed for advising that people should not buy peat-based products

Peat bog and harvesting

Don’t buy plants that grow in peat

by MikeB
October 23, 2020December 16, 2020

In the UK, peat harvesting takes place on an industrial scale and it is a total disaster so says Catherine O’Connell, the chief executive of… Read More »Don’t buy plants that grow in peat

Octopus for 36 p at Morrisons

36 pence for a dead baby octopus, one of the most amazing creatures to ever swim the seas

The words in the title are those of Justin Webb, 41, on Twitter. He is a charity worker and vegan ...
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Caleb Heikes a diver enjoys the company of an octopus who wanted a hug

Octopus wanted to hug female diver off Oahu, Hawaii

When I saw this photograph I thought of another similar situation. It concerns a Netflix documentary called My Octopus Teacher, ...
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Angry octopus attacks Lance Karlson

Angry octopus attacks geologist while walking along the shore in Western Australia

In a highly unusual video captured by Lance Karlson, a geologist, the viewing public can see the angriest octopus attacking ...
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Octopus

Octopus tentacles react independently to light

We know that octopuses are highly intelligent creatures and to that knowledge we can add a new discovery, namely that ...
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Octopus

Octopuses ‘punch’ collaborating fish when hunting

A study led by Eduardo Sampaio, a researcher at the Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre in Lisbon, discovered that octopuses ...
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