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Robert Ellison 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'' newspaper 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.〔New Zealand Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (Inc.) ''Newsletter'' Winter 2003〕 In the Queen's Birthday Honours 2013, he was appointed a Member of The New Zealand Order of Merit for services to science and cartooning.〔("The Queen's Birthday Honours 2013" ). ''New Zealand Gazette'' No. 80, p. 2171, 24 June 2013.〕 ==Selected 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'' A Living New Zealand Forest (1992) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bob Brockie」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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