helenpilcher

helenpilcher has been a member of Linktree for 11 months and joined in July 2025. The social media accounts linked to from helenpilcher are: Instagram, LinkedIn, Substack, X, Bluesky. Besides social media accounts, helenpilcher has populated their site with Could a human outrun a hippo? And what about in water - can a human outswim a hippo? — BBC Wildlife Magazine, 'Pure, intense, brilliant pain': The scientist who got stung for science says this insect is the worst — BBC Science Focus Magazine, “It can cause high fever, extreme shortness of breath, shock and pneumonia – up to 80% with it die without treatment.” 8 most dangerous, deadliest spores on the planet — BBC Wildlife Magazine, A new test claims to tell how well you’re ageing – and even when you’ll die. But I’d rather not know | Helen Pilcher, Experts tested whether cats would help humans in trouble. The results were brutal — BBC Science Focus Magazine, “That innocent question hit me like a lightning bolt." Scientist's two-year-old son inspires discovery of new type of worker honeybee | Discover Wildlife, Scientists found a dead whale 1,288m deep in the Pacific. They filmed it for 20 years – and discovered this | Discover Wildlife, A carnivore has moved into Florida's Everglades – and it's threatening native crocodiles and alligators | Discover Wildlife, The hill I will die on: If Hollywood blockbusters must dabble in science, can’t they get the small stuff right? | Helen Pilcher, Moths may not actually be attracted to lights after all, say scientists — BBC Science Focus Magazine, Why some cats seem to lose their minds during a full Moon — BBC Science Focus Magazine, This may be the weirdest reproductive trick in the entire animal kingdom — BBC Science Focus Magazine, Scientists have started milking koalas. Here's what they're up to — BBC Wildlife Magazine, Limerick competition, the nocebo effect and alcohol alternatives - ABC listen, 5 saltwater crocodiles tracked through the misty mangroves of Bangladesh. Here's what scientists found – and why it matters — BBC Wildlife Magazine, Just how long do glaciers take to give up their dead? Inside the chilling journey... — BBC Wildlife Magazine, “This huge ‘cloud’ seemed to come out of nowhere. Suddenly frogs started to fall from the sky. I thought a plane carrying frogs had exploded..." — BBC Wildlife Magazine, It's buried under 4,000 metres of ice yet doesn't freeze even though a chilly -3 °C – Discover the 15 million year-old lake that's the weirdest on the planet... — BBC Wildlife Magazine, It might only be two metres wide, but don't be deceived as this feisty stream is highly treacherous and has a 100% fatality rate... — BBC Wildlife Magazine, Statins don't cause side-effects, it's down to your brain — The i Paper, 7 strange but science-backed tips to stop stress before it starts — BBC Science Focus Magazine, Scientists just invented an ‘underwater lawnmower’. It could be a game-changer for the ocean — BBC Wildlife Magazine, This Book May Cause Side Effects by Helen Pilcher review – can you think yourself sick? | Science and nature books | The Guardian, I made my husband ill with a few words – nobody is immune to the power of the nocebo effect | Helen Pilcher | The Guardian, Are Your Symptoms Real… or Created by Your Brain? | Helen Pilcher, The best new popular science books of May 2026, Why learning about your medicine’s side effects might kill you — The Telegraph, "Incredibly emotional." Red-and-green macaws return to Brazil’s Atlantic Forest after 200-year absence | Discover Wildlife, Trick of the mind that means you really CAN think yourself ill, East River DNA reveals secrets of life (and death) in New York | Discover Wildlife, Trick of the mind that means you really CAN think yourself ill, It's big enough to swallow cities, deep enough to hide skyscrapers and inside lies an ancient, thriving 'lost world' cut off from everything above — BBC Wildlife Magazine, "We have watched and waited for this moment." World-first footage shows orangutan using canopy bridge to cross a road in North Sumatra | Discover Wildlife, Should we all be on weight-loss drugs? — BBC Science Focus Magazine, Human eyeballs are literally changing shape. And experts are baffled — BBC Science Focus Magazine, Why identical twins aren't actually identical — BBC Science Focus Magazine, Fungi may survive extreme conditions of Mars and space, say scientists | Discover Wildlife, 10 exploding animals – "Some animals self-destruct deliberately, while others jettison bits of their body or spray foul liquids from their orifices..." — BBC Wildlife Magazine, These crabs are racing up the US coastline – and scientists think they know why | Discover Wildlife, Strange creature found inside jellyfish. Scientists say it's the "first time this behaviour is documented" | Discover Wildlife, 10 toilet dwelling animals: “I felt as though my penis had been severed…” — BBC Wildlife Magazine, What we get wrong about dog ADHD (and why it matters) — BBC Science Focus Magazine, 3 apex predators coexist in this remote Himalayan valley. Camera traps just revealed how they do it | Discover Wildlife, Largest known wild chimp group splits in two – sparking violence and death | Discover Wildlife, It’s official: scientists aren’t funny. But it doesn’t have to be this way | Helen Pilcher, Scientists looked inside a bee hive. What they saw is remarkable | Discover Wildlife, Researchers tracked 9 great hammerhead sharks off Florida and the Bahamas. Here's what they discovered | Discover Wildlife, Testing The Waters - Schlumberger Foundation, Stop what you're doing and watch this 'Jesus Christ lizard' running on water — BBC Science Focus Magazine, It's as big as a Ford Fiesta, as heavy as a polar bear and can contain more than 200 ‘apartments' | Discover Wildlife, “The first thing to go are the eyes. Eyes, apparently, cook very quickly. Flesh follows soon after, and as the animal becomes overwhelmed, water enters its mouth." | Discover Wildlife, Forget birdwatching, I’m into moth-watching: they’re fascinating and misunderstood insects | Helen Pilcher, “They bore the marks of an attack, including rib fractures, internal haemorrhages and specific teeth marks.” 5 animals that kill excessively – seemingly just for fun | Discover Wildlife, “It’s a bit like sea turtle forensics." Scientists looked inside 24 turtles – and uncovered secrets from the past | Discover Wildlife, There's a pink-faced monkey in Japan that bathes in hot springs – for a surprising reason | Discover Wildlife, "I would wonder if I was just seeing things.” Scientists make illuminating discovery in South Carolina swamp | Discover Wildlife, Remote cameras catch rare predator in Californian forest. There are only 500 left on the planet | Discover Wildlife, Behind a waterfall lies a 200-metre-deep elephant cave harbouring a deadly virus that has a terrifying 88% fatality rate | Discover Wildlife, It builds skyscraper cities full of cosy, egg-shaped hammocks 30 metres above the ground | Discover Wildlife, Huge carnivores are roaming the streets of this Ethiopian city. What they're doing could be saving people $100,000 USD per year | Discover Wildlife, The world’s weirdest animal pee is stranger than you’d ever guess — BBC Science Focus Magazine, Scientists looked beneath one of oldest trees on Earth. What they found is astounding | Discover Wildlife, "First-of-its-kind event." Whale shark swims "astounding" 1,200km from Madagascar to Seychelles | Discover Wildlife, Can a human outrun a crocodile? Just how fast are these deadly, ferocious reptiles? | Discover Wildlife, The 'Great Texas Freeze' killed thousands of beloved songbirds. Scientists are worried about what might happen next — BBC Wildlife Magazine, This Book May Cause Side Effects a book by Helen Pilcher - Bookshop.org UK, Birdwatching may slow ageing of the brain, say neuroscientists — BBC Wildlife Magazine, The (very adorable) reason cats prefer sleeping on one side | BBC Science Focus Magazine, How aardvarks are built to eat 50,000 ants a night — BBC Science Focus Magazine, What we get wrong about dog ADHD and why it matters — BBC Science Focus Magazine, Vultures have been caught hiding some wild medieval treasures in their nests — BBC Science Focus Magazine, 10 USA sewer dwellers: Alligators, sea cows, snakes, turtles – the surprising animals lurking in the country's sewers... — BBC Wildlife Magazine, Kidnapped, brainwashed, enslaved: the animal that steals the young and forces them to work — BBC Wildlife Magazine, It's been sealed off for an inconceivable 5 million years and is rich in toxic chemicals. Life shouldn't survive here – yet it doesn't just survive – it thrives | Discover Wildlife, The truth about insomnia – and the surprising ways to stop it for good — BBC Science Focus Magazine, Temporary vaginas, venomous feet and the ability to sweat milk. Australia’s animals are weird — BBC Wildlife Magazine, Back to the future: Genetically modified wildlife, Mystical 'phantom of the forest' caught on camera in remote Asian mountains — BBC Wildlife Magazine, Kidnapping isn’t just a human crime: 7 of nature’s most shocking, brutal – and sometimes ballsy – abductors — BBC Wildlife Magazine, It's the size of 3 Central Parks in New York, could be 8,650 years old – and glows in the dark. Forget the blue whale this beast is the world's biggest organism — BBC Wildlife Magazine, This ancient cave in New Zealand has been hiding a "remarkable" secret — BBC Wildlife Magazine, It can be seen from space and contains a staggering two hundred million mounds, each one nine metres across and two and a half metres tall — BBC Wildlife Magazine, With speeds of 100 miles per hour, it leaves birds like swifts and albatrosses eating its dust. — BBC Wildlife Magazine, Sycamore Gap tree saplings planted across the UK – here’s where to find them — BBC Countryfile Magazine, The (really strange) reason identical twins grow different over time — BBC Science Focus Magazine, Remote cameras catch rare predator in Californian forest. There are only 500 left on the planet — BBC Wildlife Magazine, So a cow can use a stick to scratch its backside. When will we learn that humans are really not that special? | Helen Pilcher, Cow filmed using tool for the first time | Countryfile.com, Scientist Justin Schmidt was stung 1,000 times by 150 species, and ranked the pain. This was his bonkers experiment — BBC Wildlife Magazine, It oozes foul goo from its anus, dribbles globs of saliva and stares with lifeless eyes. This animal is insanely good at faking death — BBC Wildlife Magazine, Scientists blasted moss into space for 9 months. When they brought it back to earth, they were astonished — BBC Wildlife Magazine, Here’s what your poop actually says about your health — BBC Science Focus Magazine, The (very adorable) reason cats prefer sleeping on one side — BBC Science Focus Magazine, Rare 9ft-tall 'camel birds' released into Saudi Arabian desert — BBC Wildlife Magazine, It can be seen from space, is the equivalent to 8 football fields and could be 45 years old - but we have no idea how many families call it home... — BBC Wildlife Magazine, "It dies, roasted alive" – Meet nature’s 10 strangest killers that weaponise fire, wind and heat to kill | Discover Wildlife, Wild animals are great gift givers – and there’s one present in particular I’d love to receive for Christmas | Helen Pilcher, The bizarre smell that makes death contagious to worms — BBC Science Focus Magazine, 10 horrifying, deadly toxins with the power to harm – AND the capacity to heal and save lives — BBC Wildlife Magazine, "Seeing them walk free was incredibly rewarding": 50 giant tortoises released on island in the Seychelles — BBC Wildlife Magazine, 10 most violent animals on the planet: Inside the brutal battles and wars waged with their own kind — BBC Wildlife Magazine, Why do we find our pets so cute? Bold, bin-raiding raccoons may have a surprising answer | Helen Pilcher, Do hibernating animals go to the loo? — BBC Wildlife Magazine, Scientists attached moss to the International Space Station. What happened next "genuinely astonished" them — BBC Wildlife Magazine, "The rats went bananas" Here's what scientists say actually happened on Easter Island — BBC Wildlife Magazine, Instagram, The animal with the best hearing doesn’t have any ears. Here’s how it works — BBC Wildlife Magazine, helenpilcher.com, The 6 most important lessons about belly fat (and how to lose it) — BBC Science Focus Magazine, X, De-extinction: is science playing God, or is bringing species back from the dead good for nature? — BBC Wildlife Magazine, Here’s what actually causes high blood pressure (and how to cut it) — BBC Science Focus Magazine, Leading conservationists just decided that genetically engineering wild animals is OK – sometimes. They’re right | Helen Pilcher, The DNA fix that could stop extinction in its tracks – but should we use it just because we can? | Discover Wildlife, Can animals smell death?, How small changes to the way you breathe can transform your health — BBC Science Focus Magazine, Dogs name toys while elephants name each other. Animal language is more complex than we imagine | Helen Pilcher | The Guardian, Great apes with boozy fruit hold key to why humans can handle alcohol — BBC Wildlife Magazine, Eyebrow raising isn’t just for humans. These other animals do it too — BBC Wildlife Magazine, Radical new research shows that deer carcasses could save a giant Scottish bird — BBC Wildlife Magazine, Amazing new footage reveals killer whales using seaweed grooming ‘tools’ — BBC Wildlife Magazine, Scientists wore Dick Cheney masks and were mobbed by crows – here’s why — BBC Wildlife Magazine, The (very adorable) reasons cats get the zoomies after pooping — BBC Science Focus Magazine, We’re on the brink of curing stiff joints before arthritis takes hold — BBC Science Focus Magazine, Eyebrow raising isn’t just for humans. These other animals do it too — BBC Wildlife Magazine, Do all the animals in Australia really want to kill you? — BBC Wildlife Magazine, Disney’s favourite fish is shrinking – and scientists now know why — BBC Wildlife Magazine, Experts have finally worked out why mandrills have blue bums — BBC Wildlife Magazine, How this massive white bird could soon return to London | Countryfile.com, The animals that get the most drunk (and what it does to them) — BBC Science Focus Magazine, We’re finally understanding what animals are saying to us – and it’s not what we expected — BBC Science Focus Magazine, Scientists are revealing exactly how animals use sound. And their findings are extraordinary — BBC Wildlife Magazine, 10 deadliest rivers in the world including a 'boiling river' that 'cooks' animals from the inside out | Discover Wildlife, The end of food allergies is tantalisingly close. Here are the frontrunners for a cure — BBC Science Focus Magazine.