“The Writing of Animals” is a walk through our fields and mountains, in which the visitor can discover the secret language of animals. Knowing who the components of ecosystems are without having to see them, just observing the messages that all of them leave on stage.

“The Writing of Animals” is a walk through our fields and mountains, in which the visitor can discover the secret language of animals. Knowing who the components of ecosystems are without having to see them, just observing the messages that all of them leave on stage.

The exhibition aims to clearly communicate the concepts of biodiversity and ecosystem, conveying the need to conserve each species and each space, using nature’s own language: the signs of life.

The exhibition seeks to show the diversity of the ecosystems of the Iberian Peninsula, as well as to publicize the biocenoses of these ecosystems, help interpret the footprints and signs that animals leave in their wake and awaken the curiosity of the school public towards natural systems to value our natural heritage.

Organized in 15 sections, it is produced by the Biodiversity Foundation, and reflects the faces and traces of animal life. Framed by dozens of quotes from philosophers and intellectuals who have written down the greatness of Nature, “The Writing of Animals: Reading the Diversity of Life” is structured in five large spatial areas displayed in the main room of the Museum’s Zoology building.

Joaquín Araújo, the curator of the exhibition, is a writer, documentary film director, naturalist and farmer. Author of 76 books and more than 2,000 articles and co-author of another 51 books, Joaquín Araújo has directed more than 340 documentaries and is director of 8 encyclopedias. Curator of 9 exhibitions, he currently collaborates assiduously with several radio and television programs. He cultivates the land according to ecological methods.

The exhibition was inaugurated in 2006 at the headquarters of the Biodiversity Foundation in Seville, and since then it has continued to travel to different locations in Spain.