Q&A NATURE’S WEIRDEST CREATURES
Lock up your goats, it’s the great eared nightjar; a big-mouthed, teat-wrangling, milk-gobbler of a bird that will desiccate your bleaters and leave them blind. At least, that’s what Aristotle thought. According to the renowned Greek philosopher, nightjars suckle directly from the udders of goats. Bear inEarth is at the centre of the Universe and that men have hotter blood than women. Pinch of salt, anyone?