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Children have a skewed view of the natural world – but it doesn't have to be that way

By Kate Howlett, PhD candidate in Zoology, University of Cambridge

Children’s books and TV shows are full of animals, but how well do kids really know the natural world?

The vast majority of the world’s known animal species – 96.9% – are invertebrates, such as insects, snails, spiders and worms. But when my colleagues and I asked a large group of children to draw animals from their garden or local park, most of the…

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