Devil by Grzegorz Cywicki
It’s called Violin Mantis!
“We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creatures through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion.
We patronize them for incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err and greatly err.
For the animal shall not be measured by man.
In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete…gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained… living by voices we shall never hear.
They are not brethren.
They are not underlings.
They are other nations… caught with ourselves in the net of life and time… fellow prisioners of the splendor and travail of the Earth”
—Henry Beston on his book titled : “The Outermost House“
The shape of the mouth of this bird is a quirk of nature.
It’s a Roseate Spoonbill.
Image from Wikipedia
The Crab-eater seal may be the second most numerous large species of animal on Earth, after humans.
As many as 15 million of them may live on the pack ice around Antartica.
Source:”A short history of nearly everything” by Bill Bryson
