FRAMED BY FABLES

Jo Wimpenny is a nature nerd and author, on a mission to overturn popular myths and misunderstandings about animals and champion the underdogs. She has a PhD in crow problem-solving from Oxford University and is the author of Beauty of the Beasts: Rethinking Nature's Least Loved Animals (Bloomsbury Wildlife, 2026), Aesop's Animals: The Science Behind the Fables (Bloomsbury Sigma, 2021), and co-author of Ten Thousand Birds: Ornithology Since Darwin (2014).