An entertaining take on adaptation - with plenty of funny photographs! From oversized noses to bulging eyes, elaborate beaks to gigantic ears - the faces of some animals may look funny to us but their peculiar features are exactly what those animals need to survive. Find out "Why the funny face?"
Author Biography
Dr Norman is Head of Sciences at Museum Victoria where he leads the large and active natural sciences research team. For his own research he studies octopuses, squids, cuttlefishes and nautiluses (the cephalopods). He is also a trained teacher, an educational display designer and an experienced underwater cinematographer. His research and projects with documentary makers including BBC, National Geographic and Discovery Channel has covered giant squid, poisonous blue-ringed octopuses, huge aggregations of southern giant cuttlefish and diving surveys of remote Indo-Pacific coral reefs.
