Helena Burke
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 5d ago
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By far the most common home invader though is possums, according to the study.
They're cat sized marsupials that kind of look like a cuter version of a rat.
I spoke to one of the researchers involved in the study and she told me there's some pretty funny stories of people finding these animals in their homes.
One woman had an echidna get inside her pantry and start pulling things off the shelves.
Another person came home to a koala sitting on her bed, and another person
The person heard strange chirping sounds coming from the extractor fan in their shower, only to discover that a family of cookaburs had taken up residence inside the fan.
Yeah, so this research focuses on two thousand four hundred instances of wildlife entering buildings in the Australian state of Victoria.
And a lot of these are occurring in cities, particularly the capital of Victoria, Melbourne, and that's because of urban sprawl.
More and more trees are being cut down and these animals are having to find new places to nest and shelter because of it.
And sometimes that's inside people's homes.
While habitat destruction is a big problem, one of the co authors of the study, Sarah Bakesi, actually told me that wildlife being around people's houses isn't necessarily a bad thing.
So aside from preventing further habitat destruction, we can also help animals by creating spaces around our homes that accommodate them.
And that's something that Professor Bekesi is really encouraging in future architecture.
Here in the UK, swift bricks are already very common, which are these hollow bricks in a wall that contain a hole that allowed birds to nest inside them.
So it's really stuff like that that conservationists are wanting to see more of.
Back in fifteen sixty nine, the Flemish cartographer Gerardus McCater created a world map.
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Its main purpose was to help sailors navigate the globe, as the cartography professor James Cheshire explains.
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To keep those angles correct on a flat map, Makata had to stretch the grid lines wider as they moved away from the equator towards the poles.
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The result was that the countries further away from the equator, particularly those in Europe, appeared much larger than they really were, while those closer to the equator appeared much smaller.
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In fact, the Makata map makes Greenland look roughly the same size as Africa, even though the continent is actually fourteen times bigger.
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