Bob Brockie

Bob Brockie

Bob Brockie is a New Zealand cartoonist, scientist, columnist and graphic artist. Born Christchurch 1932

He has been an editorial cartoonist to the National Business Review since 1975, specialising in political satire. As a biologist he is interested in animal populations, animal behaviour and diseases and did his PhD on hedgehog ecology. Ne has published material on butterfly evolution in Sicily, behaviour of sparrows, magpies, possums, starlings, mange mites, animal roadkill, flax flowering, cabbage tree disease.

He has been a science columnist for Wellington's Dominion Post since 2001.

Great supporter of 1080 aerial poisoning and denier of potential risks.

Brockie is a member of New Zealand Skeptics. [ New Zealand Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (Inc.) "Newsletter" Winter 2003 ]

elected Bibliography

*"I was there! : dramatic first-hand accounts from New Zealand’s history"
*"City Nature: Everyday Plants and Animals in NZ Cities"
*"Dr Bob's amazing nature facts"
*"Brockie’s Bones of contention : a selection of cartoons'
*"Don't Vote - It Only Encourages Them"
* [http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4660116a1861.html| Our daily fix of 1080 poison]

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