(Pictures below, from left to right, top to bottom: Gorilla, Cat, Fish, Orangutan, Bat, Ant)
The gorilla and the bird ~
Photographer Tom Warren took this endearing picture of a tiny little birdie, one would say with more courage than sense, decided to perch on the same old truck of a fallen tree, where a gigantic gorilla was resting. Far from all logic and prognostic, the mighty beast just look at the minute creature with indulging tender interest. It could well be the beginning of a wonderful friendship.
The cat, a TV lover? ~
This was taken in Long Stratton, Norfolk, England. This cat had almost lost one of her 7 lives, when fell from the top of the building, but fortunately got caught by the TV antennas, that seemed intriguingly embracing her. She was there meowing for 3 hours before the neighbours were able to rescue her.
It's a special gift of cats, that even in distress, they can manage to keep their 'cool'; this one seems to show more serenity and defiance than desperation.
Moon-Fish, all head and hardly brain ~
A moon-fish weighs 2 tons. During the period from birth to adult, it's body weight increases 60 million times! (the frogman at the bottom right corner tells the colossal proportion of man and fish). Not just that, the fish is all head! It's a real mystery how such a gigantic head houses a brain no bigger than a nut.
The Orangutan Diver ~
Tarzan would have been proud of the stylish diver Suryia, the orangutan who straddled on the back of the trainer in the Safari Myrtle, evidently having a great time. Up till now it's believed that simians are not at all keen of water. (I have personally seen a cat who loved swimming).
The long-tongued bat ~
This species of bat is called Anoura Fistulata, only recently discovered by biologists from the University of Miami, in the Ecuadorian Andes. It has a very long tongue, much longer than all of the rest of mammals, and the second of all the vertebrates, next to the chameleon. The tongue is 3 times longer than the bat itself. (Where on earth do they hide it, or is it permanently hanging out??)
The Asian Weaver-Ant ~
It's jaws can lift a weight 100 times heavier than it's own body weight, which is to say 500 milligrams, thanks to it's sticky feet which glue them securely onto the roof. The prowess is such that to equal it, a man who weighs 90 kilos, will have to somehow hang on the roof, and with his hands, lift a sack with an elephant and 3 bulls inside!
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