It has been claimed that house martins bear a resemblance to another charismatic creature: the killer whale.
A wide range of creatures, from killer whales to nightingales, demonstrate the Lombard effect — and, according to a recent paper in Behavioral Ecology, some fish do, too.
Whether it's a ghost, alien, demon, deranged killer, creature, or anything else that horror writers have conjured, they're all monsters.
At 3 p.m., screenings include "Popular Mechanics for Kids: Killer Creatures," a live-action program from the United States and Canada and "Herman Melville's Moby-Dick," an animated adaptation of a classic from Russia, Wales and the United States.
He is a kid, but also a kind of killer, a creature trained to lock with others in bouts of fist, knife, and otherwise; pressing their faces down into the suffocating mud, he is champion and satisfied.
In his place slinks another creature entirely: a tight-lipped killer, a character driven not by his own flawed reasoning but by demons, stalking his son for the $6,000 treasure Huck came by in "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," brooding on identity and patrimony.
In Chapter 3, we discover that there is one problem with Wrinkles' wish: Cyclops is not only a mythical creature, but also a giant, killer eye-bot (spelled "C.Y.K.L.O.P.S").
If she does formally enter the race, as expected, she will have to face being branded as a baby-killer and a creature of spendthrift Washington, DC.Mrs Hutchison insists that "it's very important that we don't build a party around an issue [abortion] that is so personal, on which even families disagree".
Here's a finding that will gratify monster-crazed children everywhere: Roughly 505 million years ago, giant killer shrimp ok, shrimplike creatures called anomalocaridids prowled the ocean gobbling up any soft-bodied prey that wandered across their path.
The sides of his personality — sociopath and family man, scientist and killer, rational being and creature of impulse, entrepreneur and loser — are not necessarily as contradictory as we might have supposed.
