COVER STORY: SCIENCE
WHEN I sit on the riverbank (the place I go to when I want to de-stress), the bird that draws my attention the most is the kingfisher.
These brightly coloured birds sit on a branch and patiently wait for a fish to swim by, for perhaps an hour or more. And when the fish does appear, in the blink of an eye the kingfisher dives into the water and emerges with its prey wriggling in its beak.
That may look a rather simple act, but in reality to catch that fish there is a lot
