Storytelling Science

In your Home Zoo: Creatures that eat You

Amitabha Mukerjee

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My wife's sister is a mild and dignified lady, but there are times when a frenzy overtakes her and she will dance around the room in a whirl of sari, smacking her hands in the air and acting like Veerappan killing elephants. But the object of attack is a mere mosquito, millionth her size.