Education
As a biologist he is interested in animal populations, animal behaviour and diseases and did his Doctor of Philosophy on hedgehog ecology.
As a biologist he is interested in animal populations, animal behaviour and diseases and did his Doctor of Philosophy on hedgehog ecology.
He has been an editorial cartoonist to the National Business Review since 1975, specialising in political satire. 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.