Keeping Up With Juliette

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post,  Today I'm going to be talking about the endangered Tasmanian Devil for my TOK journal today. Please visit the second photo on the article in the link as I'll be talking about it today. I hope you find it interesting! Are we paying enough attention to our history? View photo for this journal:  https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/aug/27/the-rocks-remember-the-fight-to-protect-burrup-peninsulas-rock-art I was recently re-watching one of my favourite David Attenborough documentaries, Seven Worlds One Planet, with my sister on a Saturday morning. There were many episodes made covering a range of different countries across the seven continents but the most notable episode, to me, was the one that I watched on Australia with my sister on that Saturday morning. We enjoyed watching the bats quickly skimming the water for a drink, risking the jaws of alligators, as well as the muscular wombat, slowly trudging the snowy mou...

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post,  Today, I wanted to publish another one of my journal entries for TOK. I thought I would make this a fairly regular occurrence since this is something that I have to write every 2 weeks so I might as well share a couple with you. I won't share everything I do since it is all my own work and I would prefer it to stay that way but I figured that I might as well do this since it is kind of fun to post. Here I'm talking about the ivory trade and the unethical practices that go on in many countries across the world and Asia in particular. I talk about how we can change the knowledge and cultural understanding of the next generation of young people so that they consume less into this illegal industry. I hope you enjoy reading it and find it interesting.  - A topic that's always been of particular concern to me is the trade of elephant ivory, amongst other animal products that are considered valuable, to many people across dif...

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post,  Over the past month or so, a certain little someone has grown a little bit moody. Cough, cough, cough, Roast!  We were initially quite worried about her because after making a couple ventures out into the garden, we soon realised that everyone was out of the pen except Roast. We looked in the egg box and saw her sitting fluffed up on the hay not willing to move a muscle and so we kind of concluded that she might just be an ill hen. The next day, my dad went through the strenuous effort of making her a little sick bay in the corner of the green house using some old boxes and he even made her a little nest of hay that she could use in the meantime. All in all, we thought it was best to isolate Roast, just in case she made the other chickens sick. However, although we've had Roast for around 8 months now, she still doesn't like us because she runs away every time we try to pick her up and she glares at us like a moody toddle...

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post,  If there's one thing that makes me very happy, is watching All Creatures Great and Small on Channel 5. If you've had a bad day and need to watch some classic British television, All Creatures Great and Small is the best series to go for. Obviously this series is not the same as the 1980s version of All Creatures Great and Small but you will be surprised by how great it is once you've watched it. If you don't know who James Herriot is, he is a Yorkshire country vet who worked at Siegfried Farnon's veterinary practice from the 1930s onwards. He is a well-known figure in British culture because he made a collection of memoirs about the ups and downs of being a vet in the countryside and some of his stories are really quite funny to read. Although James is a real person and his stories are true, his comical life adventures have been documented by actors on TV, hence the newest adaptation of the TV series All Creatu...

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post,  I thought that since I brought you on this ridiculously dramatic Parsnip journey that it would only be fair to give you a positive update of how things are going. Good news, Parsnip is back to laying again! She is back to being the bossy-boots that we all know and love and that makes us all incredibly happy.☺ It was getting to the point where it was all a bit depressing. 😂 First, she hurt her right foot with the blue tag on it. We'd noticed some swelling at the top of her foot and we saw that she was quite visibly limping around so we kind of concluded that she must have jumped off the gate like she always does, and bashed her foot on the way down. We gave her some salt and vinegar hot baths and disinfected her foot with some rubbing alcohol. We'd also isolated her from the other chickens so that she wouldn't get pushed around whilst she was recovering. She was still laying then and after a few days we could see that ...

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post,  Over the years, I have become a big fan of Ben Fogle's New Lives in the Wild documentary, where he visits people who have given up the usual rat race of life, to start living in the wild pretty much self-sufficiently. If you don't know who Ben Fogle is, he is an adventurer turned TV-show host who, before he began filming his New Lives in the Wild documentary, did many crazy explorations across the world. One of his famous explorations was where he sailed the entire length of the Atlantic Ocean alongside his partner, James Cracknell. I remember reading about this scary adventure during an English exam where we were given an extract of Ben's documented story. I found it crazy how his boat capsized many times and he still managed to cross the entire length of the Atlantic Ocean. Despite failing his A-level exams, Ben has managed to accomplish this as well as reaching the top of Mount Everest in 2018. He is a true inspirat...

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post, If you've read my recent Instagram post, you'll know that one of our chickens, Parsnip, has unfortunately managed to injure herself. I never thought I'd become such a chicken mother and I certainly never thought that my own mother, who is not normally a cuddly animal person, would find herself cooing at a limping chicken.😂 But yes, Parsnip is limping and I guess it did give us a bit of a scare.  If anything, Parsnip was technically our newest addition as we'd got Sunday and Roast first (yes, we've named them after the full roast dinner but you know). Anyway, since we hadn't had her for that long, we were aware that it might be so bad that she'd have to die. This would probably be the case if she'd broken a bone. Chickens are very good at hiding their pain and we certainly didn't want her to suffer. However, luckily, it didn't seem to be that serious as what may have been causing her so much ...

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post, Funnily enough, I watched yet another documentary with my family. I feel like many people watch a TV series with their family but for me, it has become a trend to watch documentaries. Yes it's boring; I prefer educational programmes over stuff that's actually entertaining but everyone has their different tastes. This documentary was really interesting because it was about this couple who rescue chimpanzees in Liberia. I already didn't know much about Liberia so it was interesting to learn more about the culture and way of life there. Unfortunately, it was quite sad because the people just had a civil war there so the country was already quite unstable and the people are very uneducated on how they should treat chimpanzees. I don't condone their behaviour but in a way I can understand it. Many people in Liberia are known to kill mother chimpanzees and sell the babies as house pets. In the past, people probabl...

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post, Around a year and a bit ago, we saw a deer coming into our garden. Living in the Fens and having our garden next to a field, often means that we get a lot of deeds coming into our garden. We even had a rabbit come and eat our vegetables, which my parents obviously weren't too happy about. We suspected it was a pet or something as we get a lot of hares in the field but not rabbits and none of them really come into our garden anyways. However, when we saw the deer that day, unlike any other deer this one was injured. It was injured quite severely on the leg as it was bleeding and it also had lost part of it. It looked really bad so initially, I thought it would be a good idea to perhaps ring a firm, to see if there would be a possibility that they would be able to do something. However, after closer consideration, we decided to just leave it. These muntjac deers must injure themselves all the time because they're wild anima...

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post, The Supervet is an excellent program on what goes on behind the closed doors of Fitzpatrick referrals. Dr Noel Fitzpatrick is one of England's leading veterinary surgeons who founded the clinic. Fitzpatrick employs over 100 people who work at his neurosurgery and orthopaedic surgery. Him and his team work tirelessly treating hard-to-cure ailments using new innovative ways. This is all in a bid to bring home a friend to their owners. Some of the episodes include: Mason, Bongo, and Lucky A shih tzu comes in with severe arthritis and can barely walk; a Labrador has been affected by osteoarthritis in all four legs. Betty Hoop, Maya, and Kanzi A two-year-old mastiff is diagnosed with a bone tumour in her leg; a tiny pug has lost control of her hind legs; a Rhodesian Ridgeback is suffering from lameness. Buzz, Charlie, and Pebbles A border collie arrives with a suspicious lump on his ankle. I really appreciate t...

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post, It's an animal post this week and today, we are going to be talking about everything African Elephant related! Hope you enjoy :) African elephants are elephants of the genus Loxodonta which consists of two types of elephants. The first being the most common African bush elephant and second being the smaller African forest elephant.    The bush elephant is the largest living terrestrial elephant whilst the forest elephant is only the third-largest. These elephants have thick bodies that rest upon broad and sturdy legs. Their large ears are used to enable heat loss. The large ears act as cooling aids as they radiate heat from blood vessels and flap their ears to generate cooling air currents. Their upper lip and nose connect to form their trunk. This trunk acts as a fifth-limb,a sound amplifier,and an important method of contact. On average, the African elephant can weigh up to 6000kg or 6.6tons. Another ext...