Fire all the engineers.

If you want to design a railway system, use slime mold.

Rules for Biologically Inspired Adaptive Network Design, Science 327.

Portrait of the artist as a young city sparrow.

Pigeon gangs are the least of my problems.

Biography of a hamster:

Good senses and instincts.

Ruth Tzarfati, 1964

I'm the Walrus.

That was too easy.

The magic egg.

And then a sense of poetic tautology struck me.

by Lalande for L'Oeuf Magique, 1937

My Dan Brown moment:

Michelangelo's deus ex cerebrum.

The improbable pollinator.

"Hey little cricket, now that bees are dying all over, are you interested in the job vacancy?"

And when you confront the myth again...

...you will know the truth.

Sperm Whale vs. Giant Squid

Guess who won.

Lachryphagous Moths.

"Dry my tears with our proboscis".

Birds of Pray...

...or how misspellings can lead us to interesting routes.

How to put a wolverine (not that one!, the Mustelidae) in order:

Show it the fate of these poor young rats.

In the depths...

...whale bones become gardens.

Just to inform you all:

I had a close encounter with one of these beauties. I dare to say in a mystical sense too. Kind of.

One hard truth:

...except my friends, of course.

abstruse goose

A glimpse on animal insanity.

Sometimes a little anthropomorphization is needed.

from Werner Herzog's 'Encounters at the end of the world'

It looks almost like a movie scene:

San Francisco by night, empty city streets, the last bus to 46th Av., twenty raccoons scurrying for food...

Royal Inbreeding:

Forming political alliances among elite power-brokers and strange human phenotypes since... Well, since ever.

Charles II, King of Spain (1661-1700), by Juan de Miranda Carreno.

The swallow flight...

Or how to turn Star Wars spaceships maneuvers in something absolutely plain and ordinary.

Your good action for today:

Kicking out a little bit of the mythological weight from the wolf's back.

José Luis Rodriguez, the 2009 Veolia Environment Wildlife Photographer of the Year