Art imitates life, but sometimes it goes the other way. A scene from Five Star Comics #2:
Now, from Cerros de Amotape National Park in Peru:
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| Photograph by Yufani Olaya |
No, that's not a mutant. It's a cane toad that has just attempted to swallow a bat. What appear to be purple appendages on either side of the toad's mouth are actually the bat's wings. What appears to be a tongue is the bat's tail. Luckily for the bat, he made an unpalatable dish: the toad spat him out, he picked himself up, brushed himself off, then flew away.
You can read the whole story, "Alien-Like Creature Actually a Toad with a Big Appetite" by Pete Thomas, at the website GrindTV (Sept. 23, 2013), here.
Art copyright 2013 Terence E. Hanley
Text copyright 2013 Five Star Comics
