Outsider Animals with Marlene Zuk

Marlene Zuk is coming to The Walrus on Monday 12 October for a talk called Outsider Animals, which looks at the creatures that live alongside us every day and usually go unnoticed. Zuk is an evolutionary biologist, and the whole thing is built around the animals we've all seen but rarely stop to think about: the gulls patrolling Brighton's streets and seafront, the foxes and badgers that turn up in gardens at night, the rats and cockroaches, and the birds and insects adapting to our roads and buildings.

She asks what these creatures can reveal about adaptation, evolution and our complicated relationship with the natural world, and she takes the talk from coyotes to cockroaches to explore what supposedly unpopular animals can teach us about predators, pregnancy, pollution, invasive species and cohabitation. It's the kind of thing that makes you look at a seagull on a chip shop wall a bit differently the next morning.

The talk runs from 19:30 to 21:00 at The Walrus, 10 Ship Street, BN1 1AD, held downstairs in the Tusk Room. It's worth noting that there's no wheelchair access to that part of the venue, so keep that in mind if you're planning your night. Tickets are £12.