Quotes About Wildlife

The biggest predator of fish like cod is other fish - and seals keep fish like that in check.

I think it's true to say that everybody has a fascination with predators. It's something that's hardwired into us.

Crocs are apex predators, and as with all apex predators, they are critical to the environment: if you lose the crocs, you'll lose the barramundi, you'll lose the crabs - a catfish can eat 30,000 barramundi fingerlings, and who do you think eats the catfish? Crocs.

We transported eight giraffes, and there are now nine because one gave birth to a male shortly afterwards. They carry their pregnancies very well-they all looked the same.

There's something about Australia that feels prehistoric.

I think what's going on with gorillas is pretty bad. The fact is that you can buy gorilla meat in London any day you want it.

The groundhogs are pretty good at eluding. If somebody is trying to come after a ground hog, they go and they burrow.

Africa is a very dangerous place.

Canada was built on dead beavers.

Conservation is now a dead word.

A reindeer is a deer with antlers, kind of close to caribou. They're small. It's like a big Great Dane. I don't think you could ride one. I couldn't, for sure.

For us, conservation work isn't just what we do. It's who we are. It's really defined us that this is what we've dedicated our lives to.

Do Tasmanian devils really exist?

When birds burp, it must taste like bugs.

I've eaten lion, leopard, crocodile, python. I don't recommend lion. It tastes exactly like when a tomcat comes into your house and sprays. Snake and crocodile are great - a cross between lobster and chicken.

A duck tastes the same whether they're shot sitting or flying.

I'm going to be doing exactly what I'm doing now - teaching people about animals.

On average, native plants support thirteen times more caterpillar species than non-native plants.

Likewise, a home garden can be designed to serve a variety of environmental functions: • recharge groundwater • replenish atmospheric oxygen • sequester carbon • furnish shelter/cover for wildlife • promote a stable food web for wildlife • support pollinator communities • provide the right conditions for natural hybridization and the continuing development of biodiversity

In the Valley of the Wolves

Take a picture not a trophy This is how real men shoot animals

As I stood, I took in a last breath of spring-scented air, listened to the birdsong, and then saw a member of wildlife the conservationists hadn't planned on reviving in this place. A perv in a white shirt and polyester pants. A standard hide-in-the-bushes-and-whack-it perv. Fat and balding, it was as appealing as watching a giant marshmallow go at it.

The only creature on earth whose natural habitat is a zoo is the zookeeper.

It is a perversely human perception that animals in their native habitat are running wild.