Thrilling glimpse of orca teaching moment
"The sun was just rising over Ohiwa Harbour, the tide was encroaching on the mud flats rapidly as I made my way quietly up the Kutarere Channel to clear my flounder net," writes a reader from Rotorua. "I became aware of being overtaken by two dark shapes. One surfaced 4m from my boat. It was an orca followed closely by a calf. I moved further into the channel to give them a wide berth when the mother orca dived, to reappear seconds later with a stingray in its mouth. It flipped the ray, chopping off the sting and tail, it then threw it in the direction of the calf, who reappeared immediately with the stingray firmly gripped and ready to chew. What an exciting few minutes - an orca teaching its young to catch stingrays."
Pythagoras' beef with bean sprouts a problem
Dubbed "the father of vegetarianism", Greek mathematician Pythagoras is credited with popularising a meatless lifestyle. But although he subsisted solely on veges, he had no love for legumes. Pythagoras refused to eat beans, and even forbade his followers from ingesting or touching them. While we don't know whether this aversion stemmed from health or religious reasons, it may have it led to his death. According to legend, he was ambushed but refused to escape by running through a bean field. (More here )
