The first, Ann Moyal's Platypus: The Extraordinary Story of How A Curious Creature Baffled the World (Moyal 2004), concerns a creature that is itself a touchstone of nature's strangeness: the platypus.
Whale Watchers' Find The news is better concerning a far larger creature, the blue whale, which in fact is the largest animal on earth.
A 20 year-old girl is, as far as I'm concerned, an alien creature; she speaks an absolutely different language.
The first film, which came out in 2000, concerned a team of "mutants" — creatures who, more often than not, resemble human beings, but each of whom possesses an unusual or protuberant talent.
As far as the world is concerned, Tony Curtis is a creature of pure celluloid, having sprung to life one day in 1949 when Universal Studios started getting mail about that new, unbilled contract player who in perhaps two minutes on screen had danced Yvonne De Carlo into the arms of Burt Lancaster in "Criss Cross".
Questions also arose concerning the creature's proper place in the human line of descent: Is this the earliest direct ancestor of modern humanity, as its discoverers believe, or is it perhaps an evolutionary dead end? "The evidence isn't good enough to say a great deal yet," Wood cautioned.
There is a choice to be made concerning transitive creature-consciousness, failure to notice which may be a potential source of confusion.
Life, the Universe and Everything (1982) concerns itself with Cricket, and a creature with a grudge called Agrajag.
In each case, these tests end in violence and dismay, throughout which the blank-eyed father, though utterly in charge of the situation, seems as untroubled by love or concern as a robot or a creature from outer space.
Anthony Cronin suggests that the "aesthetic satisfactions" of the text, which concerns humanoid creatures victimizing one another while crawling across a plain of mud, insufficiently repay "the pains and difficulties" imposed upon the reader, and most people will be inclined to take his word for it.
There's a similar moment when a dapper Italian-looking gent strides towards Winogrand's camera, hand upturned and an expression that says "What gives?" And in one famous shot from 1959, a monkey glares at his camera from the rear of an open-top car, while the couple in the front seats seem more concerned with the creature's angry reaction than with the intruder who provoked it.
