I never realized, until this week, that the Octopuses have a very delicate sense of propriety. In the aquarium at Monterey there are two magnificent Octopuses in tanks, side by side, surrounded by signs saying: 'Don't flash the Octopus'.
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Rowing down the Thames at the weekend I see a most amazing sight. A tern has made a nest inside an old tyre.
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On a BA plane I buy a solar powered mosquito repellent device. "Female mosquitoes normally bite during their spawning period, at this time they do not like being approached by male mosquitoes, so the repellent produces the same frequency of the male mosquito (around 5KHz - 9KHz) to repel the female mosquitoes," runs the accompanying description of the rather witty principle on which the device works.
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