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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My Work
“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…”
From bats living paycheck-to-paycheck to elephant seal billionaires — which species can afford to act sick, which cannot, and why?
A new species of hooktail dragonfly known from three “international” specimens.
In search of a microendemic amidst toxic trees
How an unusual little snail jumped its way across the globe
Should we really care if animal species go extinct?
A new micro-endemic species of spiny mouse from the Dumbara Mountains of central Sri Lanka.
Living in the lyrebird’s shadow
The mystery of cave-dwelling opossum shrimp found half a world apart