Stephen Coates
speaker
150 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 14 May
Stephen Coates’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Why don't we kill it and bring it back to London?
They were actually going in search of specimens.
So there would be a specialist with them who knew how to prepare it or keep it alive until it got home.
Wailing crews, mostly British, ate the Galapagos tortoises by the thousand, using them as living larders.
These days, new specimens come in by other means.
Maybe a stranded dead porpoise, or a parasite collected as part of a health programme.
Fossils are collected in quarries, twigs from wild trees.
Sometimes a zoo will donate a dead animal.
Scientists still do occasionally sample and collect in the field, under strict controls, and only when necessary to protect a species.
Professor Flora Magige is visiting London from Dar es Salaam, where she's head of the Department of Wildlife and Zoology.
Flora and her team are building up their own natural history collection back in Tanzania, working alongside colleagues here in London.
they're unpicking some of the myths of colonial times and the way British explorers were always credited with finds.
The reality was more complex.
That's John Nyakura, specialist in amphibians and reptiles.
John was thrilled to find several specimens labelled in Swahili.
This is the documentary from the BBC World Service.
We've had moths at home.
We bagged up our clothes and put them in the freezer.
But imagine doing that with a bear or an antelope.
Here's Richard Sabin, principal curator in the mammal section.
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