When your fish goes all curly

A problem with hunting for your food is that sometimes it carries on wriggling. This Black Guillemot was having problems containing its Butterfish and even ended up wearing it as a hat at one stage.

Black Guillemot - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)

It looked very fetching. I’ve heard the style is all the rage in Paris and Milan.

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