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 three years ago to write about obscure animal species I felt were not receiving their deserved spotlight.
When I’m not writing I’m taking photos and logging observations on iNaturalist.
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“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…”
The Indian Vulture Crisis: an ecological collapse that caused a national health crisis.
A new species of hooktail dragonfly known from three “international” specimens.
Once a year, these squid light up a bay in Japan, and then they all die.
The largest carnivorous bat in the world hunts sleeping birds in the night.
Should we really care if animal species go extinct?
A “cryptid” from Japan’s subtropical island, only described in 1981.
Undeniably the weirdest of all tits, this species was a taxonomic mystery for over a century.
The souls of long dead samurai? An experiment in artificial selection?