[featured image] Every Spring-time, lots of fat blokes with guns take pot shots at any birds that happen to be flying over Malta en-route to somewhere else. They’re supposed to confine their blood-lust to species like turtle dove and quail; however, when Spring is in the air nothing with feathers …
[featured image] The Stenus rove beetles are truly blessed in bizarre adaptations. If telescopic mouthparts weren’t enough (see last post), they also have one of the most impressive defences in the animal kingdom. Often, these beetles are found in waterside habitats, where they wander about on the ground and in …
[featured image] Catching prey is far from easy, that’s why predators have evolved a host of means of catching and subduing their …
[featured image] Evolution has been very creative when it comes to mimicry, but the most incredible in my opinion and therefore at …
[featured image] You’d think that transvestism might be a uniquely human trait, but the animal kingdom is not without other species where …
[featured image] Orb-web spiders build an intricate trap to catch their prey, normally hapless insects; however, there are some spiders in this …
[featured image] In the right circumstances birds can evolve into giants. In the vast majority of cases they have done this on …
[featured image] The paussine beetles (see scoundrels – #6) are very good at mimicking the odour of ants in order to run …
[featured image] Most animals are content with mimicking one species or a group of species, indeed that’s all they can do because …
[featured image] As we’ve seen with the ant-mimicking spiders (see scoundrels – #8), the imitation of ants is often very elaborate because …