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  • BBC Wildlife Magazine

    GILLIAN BURKE

    Jul 28, 2022 3 minutes

    TRUTH BE KNOWN, MY WORLD IS falling apart. I’m getting ready to say goodbye to my mum for the last time. I briefly mentioned in my last column that I was breaking my flight-free pledge to see my mum in Kenya. Is my bond with my beautiful mother worth adding to the anthropogenic load that our beautiful natural world is already having to bear?

    Logically speaking, absolutely not. With is a social species that is shaped, in part, by the strength of hormonally mediated emotional bonds.

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