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CrowdScience: Green Man Festival: Why are some animals so ugly?

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Green Man Festival - Why are animals so ugly?

27/10/2023 GMT

Green Man Festival: Why are some animals so ugly?

BBC World Service - CrowdScience, Green Man Festival: Why are some animals so ugly?

Why are some animals cute – and some downright weird?

Why are some animals cute – and some downright ugly? This edition of Crowdscience comes to you directly from Green Man Festival in Cymru (Wales).

Why are some animals cute, cuddly, adorable – and some are slimy, creepy and downright weird? This edition of Crowdscience, recorded in front of a live audience, comes to you directly from the world-famous Green Man Festival in Bannau Brycheiniog National Park in Cymru (Wales). The programme recording was powered entirely by hydrogen. 

Our inbox has been bursting at the seams with questions about creepy crawlies, deep sea beasties, cheeky monkeys, endangered species and animals of all shapes and sizes.  So, we rounded up a panel of experts to get some answers! 

Surrounded by 25,000 people trudging merrily through the mud, pelted with torrential rain, underscored by the warm hum of revelry, the BBC’s Marnie Chesterton speaks with Dr David Jones from the Natural History Museum, an expert on creepy crawlies and someone who spends a considerable amount of time thinking about earthworms, ants, and termites. Also joining us is Jess Savage, a researcher from the Institute of Zoology in London who’s an expert on ocean-dwelling animals and the impact of plastic pollution. Finally, we have Simon Watt, a biologist, comedian and founder of the Ugly Animal Preservation Society. 

Join us for this very special edition of Crowdscience, in partnership with Green Man Festival, where we bring the experts closer to you than ever before. 

Presenter: Marnie Chesterton 
Producer: Emily Bird 
Editor: Richard Collings 
Technical producer: Mike Cox 
Studio manager: Jackie Margerum
Production co-ordinator: Jonathan Harris

(Photo: Marnie and guests. Credit: Jonathan Harris)

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