Showing posts with label Mustache Parasites. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mustache Parasites. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Fade, Fading Away



This gentleman's mustache is ghostly and barely there, as if were camouflaging itself from the dread North American Hook-Beaked Mustache Swallow. A brilliant example of microevolutionary adaptation. Bravo!

Sunday, July 22, 2007

Mustache Health Weekend, pt. 4



This poor sufferer's mustache is completely bald in the middle. There are many causes of Mustache Baldness, but the most perplexing is the little understood North American Hook-beaked Mustache Swallow, an insidious creature that steals the softest mustache hairs to line its nests. Thought extinct after their flesh became a delicacy in the salons of Europe in the 1880s, there have been recent reports of a live specimen caught in the Oregon territories.