Naturalist and television presenter Chris Packham is to give a talk in the Isle of Man.
He will be appearing at the Gaiety Theatre, Douglas, on December 2.
He will relive encounters with large hungry carnivores, close shaves with extinction and share his views about conservation.
It will be illustrated with superb photographs and film clips.
Organisers say it won’t be a lecture and will be of interest to anyone who likes wildlife.
Chris is currently presenting this year’s series of Autumnwatch on BBC2.
He also presents BBC2’s Inside The Animal Mind.
Chris was born in Southampton in 1961 and as soon as he was crawling around suburbia ladybirds were being desiccated in matchboxes and tadpoles tortured in jam jars.
Husbandry skills improved and the menagerie expanded to large collections of reptiles (inside) and birds of prey, foxes, badgers, squirrels etc (generally outside).
A precocious young scientist, swat and nerd in training he studied kestrels, shrews and badgers in his teens and undergraduate days at the zoology department of Southampton University.
After he graduated he began taking still photographs and trained as a wildlife film cameraman before presenting television.
Tickets to the event cost £19 and doors 7.30pm.