Adam Fulford's Miscellany

In this blog, I'll talk about the unusual and odd creatures with idiosyncratic behaviors that inhabit our world

Friday, February 2, 2007

Bats: Truly Divine Beings

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Bats are among the most noble and divine creatures on this planet. In Africa, they are the source of life for the Tree of Life itself. Bats...
Friday, January 12, 2007

Bugs GIve Tips about Society and Seduction

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The Robber Fly The female robber fly is likely to attack her mate, so courtship is perilous. Some male robber flies deal with this by presen...
Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Very Greedy Birds

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Cowbirds don't make their own nests. Cowbirds sneak into other birds' nests that already have eggs, and lay eggs of their own, for ...

Wrasse Fish and Bass

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Little Wrasse fish clean bass by removing and eating parasites and unhealthy flesh from the Bass's body. The wrasse gets food and the b...

Clownfish and Sea Anemone

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The clown fish constantly swims within the long stringy tentacles of the sea anenome. It poses as food for bigger fish that hungrily swim i...

Swimming with the Sharks and Catching a Free Ride (and Free Lunch, too)

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Remora, a kind of long flat fish, attaches itself to sharks with sticky disks. In doing so, it gets a free ride, and a bodyguard -- the sha...

The Darwin Moth and the Star Orchid

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Darwin long noticed that flowers were matched with living creatures that pollinated them. In Madagascar he noticed star orchids with ver...
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