Richard Conniff’s Substack
Richard Conniff on NatureI write about wildlife, the natural world, and public health, based on my career as an author of books like "The Species Seekers" and "Swimming with Piranhas at Feeding Time," and as a contributor to magazines, television documentaries, and public radio.
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City Streets Are for People First, Not Cars
by Richard Conniff
“Paris Street, Rainy Day,” by Gustave Caillebotte, in the pre-automotive year 1877.
Back in 2018, I published a piece in The New York Times about the push to re-think city streets, reclaiming public space from automo...
A Great Wildlife Success Story Crashes Down
by Richard Conniff
In happier times, a Connecticut River osprey returns to the nest with a menhaden in tow. (Photo: Krisofer Rowe)
One sunrise earlier this month, I was watching ospreys hunting at the mouth of the Connecticut River. N...
The Season of Bloodsuckers
by Richard Conniff
Pretty little vectors, also known as Anopheles quadrimaculatus larvae (Photo: CDC/Amy E. Lockwood)
This is not a story about our vampire presidency. Nor is it about ticks, which are already too much in the news for...
A Tale of Breughel and the Killer Bats
by Richard Conniff
Breugel’s “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus” (Brussels, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium)
“About suffering they were never wrong, the Old Masters,” W.H. Auden wrote in his celebrated poem “Musée des Beaux Arts...
The All-American White Supremacist Role Model
by Richard Conniff
The Ugliest American?
I have a new piece coming out on Monday at 3 p.m., when a certain scientific study comes off embargo. Meantime, with the 250th anniversary of American independence in mind, and American racists...
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I write about behaviors of humans & other animals--anywhere from the Peruvian Amazon to the Himalayas of Bhutan--and also about public health. I write for lay readers & scientists alike, & aim to keep it insightful & entertaining for all.
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