Philip Hoare
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Rare hooded seal pup born in Netherlands moved away from humans
Pup moved to remote location after discovery on Vlieland beach, far from usual Arctic habitat → Read More
‘Aural tattoos’: sperm whales use sounds to signal social identity, say scientists
Research says clicks emitted from whales’ heads are symbolic marking like human social expression → Read More
Whales and walruses: our cruel fascination with stranded sealife
Outrage over fate of Freya the walrus has exposed man’s inability to cope with marine mammals that go aground → Read More
From Loch Ness to the Essex Serpent, why are humans so keen to invent sea monsters?
As Sarah Perry’s novel becomes a TV drama, the human need to escape reality with a shiver of fear remains as strong as ever → Read More
Drone technology gives us the eyes of gods. Could it help us save arctic seals?
Images of harp seals taken from hundreds of miles above show their plight. They should spur us to action, writes Philip Hoare → Read More
Seeing 1,000 glorious fin whales back from near extinction is a rare glimmer of hope
Whales still face many threats, mostly from us, so let us savour this rare congregation of them in the Antarctic Peninsula, says author Philip Hoare → Read More
The return of whales, seals and dolphins to the British coast is a wonder to witness
Our shapeshifting seas have been degraded over the centuries, but we can still take inspiration from their beauty, says author Philip Hoare → Read More
Under the skin of the ocean, there’s a super-loud fishcotheque going on
The hubbub of an Indonesian reef should comes as no surprise: the world below is alive with sound, says author Philip Hoare → Read More
Mythic white sperm whale captured on film near Jamaica
Type of whale immortalised in Moby-Dick has only been spotted handful of times this century → Read More
Walrus leaves Arctic comfort zone for snooze on Dutch submarine
Unclear if ‘Freya’ is conducting protest lie-in or just waylaid, though Dutch navy note her choice of ‘Walrus-class submarine’ → Read More
Horror at the Faroes dolphin slaughter is only human – but it risks hypocrisy
Our response to a mass cetacean hunt reveals man’s duplicitous attitudes to animals, says Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan, Or the Whale → Read More
Lost and far from home, these whales are emblems for our times
Seeing nature out of place reminds us of our impact on the planet, says history and nature writer Philip Hoare → Read More
Sperm whales in 19th century shared ship attack information
Whalers’ logbooks show rapid drop in strike rate in north Pacific due to changes in cetacean behaviour → Read More
The importance of being Everett
The greatest role played by the actor is his portrayal of a profane, outrageous entertainer – himself. → Read More
Noël Coward's private lives: the photographs that could have landed him in jail
A newly discovered album contains intimate, joyful glimpses of the playwright drinking, partying and holidaying with his famous friends and lovers. The result is an astonishing insight into gay life in the interwar years → Read More
Whale stranding increase may be due to military sonar exercises, say experts
It is thought sonar may scare animals into surfacing too quickly, causing narcosis → Read More
Why Willem Dafoe, Iggy Pop and more are reading The Rime of the Ancient Mariner to us
Slaver, ecocide, plague ... the warnings of Coleridge’s poem resound down the ages. Now 40 actors, musicians and authors are performing in a daily mass-reading → Read More
‘I launch naked into the unknown’: writers on the joy of wild swimming
From ice-cold rock pools to secluded riverbanks, six authors reveal the best spots in the UK to dive in and find inspiration → Read More
Subversive, queer and terrifyingly relevant: six reasons why Moby-Dick is the novel for our times
The book features gay marriage, hits out at slavery and imperialism and predicts the climate crisis – 200 years after the birth of its author, Herman Melville, it has never been more important → Read More
How the Bauhaus built the future
In 1919, Walter Gropius established an art school in sleepy Weimar. Before long it had invented a new way of living for the 20th century. → Read More