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Low Tide Constellation

True to its name, the European Bee-eater (Merops apiaster) is an insect-eater with a taste for bees. But how does it deal with its prey’s pesky stingers? This crafty bird catches the bee, briefly stuns it by hitting it against a perch, and then slams the stinger against the surface to tear it out. For the final step, it flings the bee up in the air before gulping it down it

Have you ever seen the Spectacled Eider (Somateria fischeri)? During breeding season, males sport green plumage in a pattern that's reminiscent of glasses. While this doesn't make their vision sharper, it does help males stand out from the crowd. For the rest of the year, they revert to mottled-brown plumage, similar to females, which have more subdued spectacles year-round. This duck is unique in that it lives in the frigid high Arctic. It sustains itself on a diet of mostly mollusks and crustaceans, diving to pluck prey from the ocean floor.

Stream Sipping

there's also the more parabolic traditional Amasunzu hairstyles of the Tutsi, worn up until the 1900's

but, when you get down to it, anything with braids is a remarkable celebration of math (and controlled entropy)