The Urban Naturalist: How to Make the City Your Scientific Playground

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    • The cover of the book The Urban Naturalist: How to Make the City Your Scientific Playground by Menno Schilthuizen, illustrated by João Fazenda. The design features a collage of urban and natural elements, including red flowers, blue birds, green leaves, a yellow sun, bicycle wheels, pink plants, a green park bench, binoculars, mushrooms, a glass bottle, and two blue butterfly nets crossed over the title. The typography is bold and black against a cream-colored background.

    Join evolutionary biologist Menno Schilthuizen to explore a new dawn of natural history, practiced by community scientists in their own urban jungle.

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    Thursday, April 3 6PM – 8PM

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    Imagine taking your smartphone-turned-microscope to an empty lot and discovering a rare mason bee that builds its nest in empty snail shells. Or a miniature spider that hunts ants and carries their corpses around. With a team of citizen scientists, that's exactly what Menno Schilthuzien did -- one instance in the evolutionary biologist's campaign to take natural science to the urban landscape where most of us live today. 

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    The cover of the book The Urban Naturalist: How to Make the City Your Scientific Playground by Menno Schilthuizen, illustrated by João Fazenda. The design features a collage of urban and natural elements, including red flowers, blue birds, green leaves, a yellow sun, bicycle wheels, pink plants, a green park bench, binoculars, mushrooms, a glass bottle, and two blue butterfly nets crossed over the title. The typography is bold and black against a cream-colored background.

    Thursday, April 3 6PM – 8PM

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    Last updated February 19, 2025.

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