12 Facts About Kees Moeliker

Kees Moeliker is European Bureau Chief of the Annals of Improbable Research.

Kees Moeliker himself was provided with education at the Pieter Caland School in Rotterdam.

Kees Moeliker went on to study biology and geography at a teacher training institution in Delft.

Kees Moeliker graduated with a research project on the winter-season feeding ecology of the Long eared owl.

Kees Moeliker joined the museum, initially as an educational assistant, in 1989.

Kompanje, Kees Moeliker identified and described a subspecies of Long-tongued nectar bat, of which the known habitat is restricted to the little Island of Boo in the east of Indonesia.

Amongst his work for the Natural History Museum Rotterdam, Kees Moeliker preserved the Domino Day 2005 sparrow, a house sparrow that was shot and killed by a hunter after it knocked down a large domino display in Leeuwarden.

Kees Moeliker has written three books: in 2009;, which translates to The Butt Crack of the Tick, in 2012; and in 2024.

Kees Moeliker won the 2003 Ig Nobel Prize for biology for his study of homosexual necrophilia in male mallards.

Kees Moeliker was nominated in 2013 for the Edgar Doncker Prize in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the Rotterdam Natural History Museum and to conservation more generally.

Kees Moeliker appears annually at the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony in Boston, Massachusetts, and is a regular performer on the Ig Nobel Prize's tours of the United Kingdom.

Jimmy Wales, the co-founder of Wikipedia, who was a guest on the programme, replied that that was unnecessary because Wikipedians listen to the show and he predicted that an English-language page for Kees Moeliker would be created before the airing of the programme had finished.