Owls Have A Well-deserved Reputation For Wisdom, But Even Greater Is Their Capacity To Teach. Above,

Owls have a well-deserved reputation for wisdom, but even greater is their capacity to teach. Above, a Little Owl supervises a dog studying for an upcoming German vocabulary test.

In times of plenty, Kingfisher birds can forgo their more active hunting methods in favour of simply waiting on an outcropping near water, beak agape.

Once believed to be a relative of the Snowy Egret, the Great Egret has been unmasked as not even belonging to the same Order. Even more astonishing, they aren’t even from the same phylum. As this photograph amply demonstrates, Great Egrets are in fact a significantly more mobile example of tubeworm, where the long rigid tube which so characterizes them has (through millions of years) been absorbed inside the body.

More commonly known as Goth Turkeys, Trinidadian Piping Guans are critically endangered. Many attribute this to a general decline in popularity of the Gothic genre as a whole, but in reality it is simply the perennial conflict between Man and Nature. Specifically, the mating call for this darkly romantic bird sounds uncannily like Robert Smith wordlessly crooning at all hours of the night and day, while the locals prefer Siouxsie Sioux to the exclusion of all other vocals.

One of the most bizarre adaptations in the animal kingdom belongs to the humble Seagull. Where other birds are driven by the Four Fs, Seagulls possess a perfect awareness of how fleeting and meaningless their lives are. This allows them to harass beachgoers and steal food without any regrets whatsoever, although on occasion you may find one struggling to cope with a universe that is both unfeeling and eternal.

To the surprise of nobody, ducks are assholes.