The Shrek fish
The Asian sheepshead wrasse is quite common in the waters around Japan and is renowned for the protrusions on its head which has led some people to nickname it ‘Shrek’. It could, of course, be nature’s way of preventing it from ending up on the dinner table.
A drastic solution
The poaching of rhinoceros in Africa, ostensibly for the horns, is apparently at an all-time high, conventional means of combating poaching seemingly innefective. One man, a nature preserve owner, has come up with a very different idea to try and stop the practice, although it does raise a few legal and ethical questions….Toxic Avenger…
Lucky escape, cobber
Hardly any surprise that this koala bear really does look shocked and surprised after being hit by a car travelling at 80 kph. Good news, though, as the cute little critter escaped without even a scratch, just had the indignity of his bum being wedged in a radiator grill…Koala…
The early bee gets the flower
According to a study published in the journal Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology, honeybees are cleverer in the morning. Scientists capture 1,000 forager honeybees and trained groups of the insects at different times of the day to associate a new odour with a food reward.
Grazing swans
I can’t ever recall seeing a family of swans actually ‘grazing’ before, just eating heaps of grass. Is it normal?
More than skin deep
Some very interesting colour X-Ray pictures of flowers by photographer Hugh Turvey. Hugh Turvey started out as a designer and art director before turning his attention to photography.