Author: jonathanslaght

• Walking Rivers with Tigers

  My most recent post at Scientific American: Why do tigers always seem to turn up when I’m looking for owls? My Russian colleagues and I spent about a month surveying…

• Fish Owls on the BBC

    Earlier this month I spoke about fish owls on a BBC World Service program called Outlook, which reaches approximately 52 million listeners across the globe. I think it turned out well.…

• Where There Is No Tractor

  This post first appeared on 16 March, 2016 on Scientific American. One of my favorite Russian sayings, roughly translated, is that the better your off-road vehicle, the further you’ll have…