{"id":118430,"date":"2025-10-13T02:16:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T02:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/118430\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T02:16:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T02:16:14","slug":"dara-mcanulty-nature-is-always-going-to-be-there-for-me-humans-are-a-lot-more-complicated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/118430\/","title":{"rendered":"Dara McAnulty: \u2018Nature is always going to be there for me, humans are a lot more complicated\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nFollowing the release of his latest book in the \u2018Wild Child\u2019 series, the Ulster naturalist talks about activism, autism and swapping rage with hope\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Naturalist and author Dara McAnulty in his happy place, near the family home in Co Down. Photo: Declan Roughan\/Press Eye\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/5b1c4132-2703-4b7a-8a7e-326589eb812a.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Naturalist and author Dara McAnulty in his happy place, near the family home in Co Down. Photo: Declan Roughan\/Press Eye<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Six people stoop over a pond in Co Down. We\u2019re at the family home of Ulster naturalist Dara McAnulty, and a frog in the murk won\u2019t play ball. With a splash and quick flash of leg, the little amphibian has given us the slip.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cThat happens,\u201d laments McAnulty with the first of many propulsive guffaws. \u201cThey\u2019re very good at getting away and can hold their breath for a long time\u201d says Paul, Dara\u2019s scientist father and clearly a contributing source of his son\u2019s nature-loving DNA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following the release of his latest book in the \u2018Wild Child\u2019 series, the Ulster naturalist talks about activism,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[18,117,72378,19,17,23942],"class_list":{"0":"post-118430","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-hilary-white","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-people-culture-magazine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}