Synopsis

The overlooked oddities of the natural world receive attention here, examining creatures often deemed unattractive. This includes the dung beetle, the formidable elephant seal bull, the spectral ghost-faced bat, the stately Indian stork, the peculiar naked mole rat, the fearsome needle-toothed viperfish, the distinctive proboscis monkey, the sensitive star-nosed mole, the parasitic tapeworm, the scavenging vulture, and the bristly warthog. We explore how each of these unusual features and charac