Plenty of documentation exists for birds hunting for fish. It’s not even news. But fish jumping out of water to hunt birds? Well, that’s almost a fabled tale and one not so readily believed. Now we have a first confirmed record of a fish hunting for birds. The video above shows an African Tigerfish catching hold of a swallow in flight.
The battle lines are drawn, the kitty needs to wear armor. Your cat probably won’t love you any more for getting it armor, but then again it won’t detest you any more either. So you could cover you cat in leather armor without worrying much.
Fish are colorful, bright creatures. Like almost all beings in nature, the colors of fish aren’t really markers of their anatomy. Dyed fish in the works of Professor Adam Summers have dyes running around bodies of the marine animals, clearly marking several anatomical structures.
At Rest by photographer Emma Kisiel is a series that shows decent last rites given to animals. Most of the animals in the series are roadkill. The photographer does not move their bodies, but usually places stones and flowers around them, creating something of a last rite for the deceased animals.
Netherlands based photographer Edwin Kats has captured beautiful awww-inducing images of rodents, mostly squirrels and hedgehogs. The images were captured in the woods within a 10 mile radius of his home in Nunspeet, Holland. Kats spent a long time with these little critters, getting to know them, their habits, and in turn familiarizing them with his presence.
Animal Lace collection by artists Linlin and Pierre-Yves Jacques is a series of animal head busts and trophies built in an intricate mesh. The ornate trophies were 3D printed using white polyamide and gloss paint, which gives them a brilliant white look during the day. At night, lamps in the animal heads shine and glimmer through the animal forms, forming a pattern of shadows along the wall.
The praying mantis is a very vicious predator, and their prey would have enough sense to stay away from them. But a pink flower? Now that wouldn’t sound scary to anyone, insects included, who would find themselves pray to the orchid mantis. This is a species of praying mantis from the Malaysian rainforest, where they have mastered the art of disguise to lure in their prey.
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Our earth is home to millions of species, yet most of us only know a few, often overlooking some very fascinating some very fascinating species that cohabit this planet with us. Ross Piper through his book Animal Earth seeks to bring attention to the several species that the author feels do not get the attention they deserve. In the views of Piper, humans have so far cataloged about 1.5 million different species, yet there may be more than 200 million still waiting to be discovered.
Tiny Animals on Fingers is a Flickr collection featuring photographs of, well, tiny animals on fingers. It has the usual culprits like turtles, geckos and frogs, though the surprise prize sure goes for monkeys.
Watching this video, you realize that cats are quite consistent in their “meow” throughout the world, though the others can vary quite a bit between languages. A nice touch to the video is that native speakers of the language say the word out for you, so it’s quite fun to watch and you get a feel of the actual local pronunciation as well.