Adaptations

It was a blustery wet day today, the sort of day when you might as well do all the horrible jobs as well. So I cleaned out the gutters, dealt with a problem in the bathroom, started my clear out...
The oryx has different problems, he needs to keep his head cool by having his brain below the eyes, near the nostrils to keep a cool head in the blistering desert sun. My reminder of survival in extreme environments by adaptation . Seems a long time now that we saw them in the wild (August) and now he is adapting to Christmas in the northern hemisphere as well.