Here at Bodkin, we embrace our dorkiness. We tend to send each other pictures of funny animals all day, and today our studio-mate Jacqueline said, “why don’t you add that to your blog?” And why not? Learning about animals is, after all, a way to learn about your world, and why it’s worth protecting.

So here, without further adieu, is the narwhal. An Arctic and North Atlantic-dwelling member of the whale family, its distinctive twisted tusk is actually a tooth found on males only (it’s not for hunting or ice-cutting; it’s thought to be a secondary sex characteristic, like peacock feathers. So the bigger the tusk…you get the picture.) In centuries past, northern traders would peddle the tusks as unicorn horns to gullible merchants and royalty.

So, then…have a great weekend!