Tuesday, June 11, 2024

The Diet of William Buckland



Like his father before him, Frank Buckland studied the world around him and ate a great portion of it. Buckland's goal was to eat every species, although that was never possible, as there are always new species being discovered. But nothing was off the table, so to speak, as he consumed mammals, reptiles, insects, and things that crawled around on the bottom of the ocean. Oh yeah, the term "zoophage" is just another way of saying "carnivore." Buckland was presumably more of an "omnivore." The Royal Society gives us an overview on Buckland and his rather adventurist family. Read more about Buckland in this Neatorama article. (via Nag on the Lake)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

A one man plague of locusts.
xoxoxoBruce