Bob Brockie (born 1932, Christchurch) is a New Zealand cartoonist, scientist, columnist and graphic artist.
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. He 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.
Brockie takes a strong interest in refuting popular myths, like danger to humans from 1080 poison used to control possum populations.
Brockie is a member of New Zealand Skeptics.
Read more about Bob Brockie: Selected Bibliography
Famous quotes containing the word bob:
“It was because of me. Rumors reached Inman that I had made a deal with Bob Dole whereby Dole would fill a paper sack full of doggie poo, set it on fire, put it on Inman’s porch, ring the doorbell, and then we would hide in the bushes and giggle when Inman came to stamp out the fire. I am not proud of this. But this is what we do in journalism.”
—Roger Simon, U.S. syndicated columnist. Quoted in Newsweek, p. 15 (January 31, 1990)