Upside-down world  Notice anything wrong? For some reason we are
able to accept that bats like to live upside-down, but we find
it difficult for other animals. (Fruit bat, Myonycteris
torquata, from Ghana)[Canon 5D, Canon 180mm, speedlight Canon
580EX]  “Men it appears would rather believe than know” wrote
E.O. Wilson in his seminal book “On human nature”, and this sad
truth is evident in many aspects of our life, including,
strangely, the world of nature photography. One of my pet peeves
has always been the tendency of some editors to rotate pictures
of animals that prefer to look at the world with their heads
pointing down, so that in the modified photo their posture
appears more similar to ours. Somehow, this fakery to make
animals more anthropomorphic has always been considered pretty
innocuous and, to my dismay and outrage, on many occasions my
photos were modified in this way without consultation.  Most
praying mantids, like this Epitenodera sp. from Mozambique,
spend most of their lives hanging with th