Hi, I’m Alexander Julius Jensen.

My core areas of expertise are island biogeography, animal taxonomy, and natural history, with a particular focus on East Asian fauna.


I started this website four years ago to write about obscure animal species I felt were not receiving their deserved spotlight.

Contact

jensenalexander333@gmail.com

My Work


Alfred Russel Wallace “Adopts” an Orangutan

“I was now in hopes that I had made the little orphan quite happy; and so it seemed for some time, until it began to remember its lost parent…”

White-rumped Vulture

The Indian Vulture Crisis: an ecological collapse that caused a national health crisis

Madagascar to Sweden to France

A new species of hooktail dragonfly known from three “international” specimens

Firefly Squid

Once a year, these squid light up a bay in Japan, and then they all die

Why Does Extinction Matter?

Should we really care if animal species go extinct?

A “cryptid” from Japan’s subtropical island, only described in 1981

Okinawa Rail
Brahminy Blind Snake

An asexual “flowerpot” snake that invaded the world