Aotearoa Fauna Guide # 38721, the fantail. (Piwakawaka) The New Zealand Fantail is notorious for plucking out peacock tail feathers and then taunting the assaulted birds with its squeaky-toy like song. The fantail then integrates the stolen feathers into its own tail for an elaborate mating dance. Pen.

When I was 10, we had a laser show in our gymnasium (it was the 1980s) . They played ‘Lucy in the sky with Diamonds’ and explained about the discovery of the oldest human skeleton in Africa. Between the music, light and this new knowledge, I had a strange but beautiful existential moment of being connected to everything in the universe.

The rare New Zealand fledgehog protects itself with a soft and dandering down. Its squishy form could resist the strongest blows of cricket bats and being stepped on by the heaviest of persons. The China National Space administration is currently studying its biology as a parachute-less entry system for a mission to Mars.

After a hard days work and after you tuck yourself to sleep, you guardian burrito will watch over you.

two versions – based on a Mister Bean sketch.