One of the strangest creatures on the island of Madagascar is a giraffe-necked weevil. There’s a reason for those long necks ... males use them for fighting.
This image depicts a male Giraffe weevil (Trachelophorus giraffa) as it appeared in Ranomafana National Park - in Madagascar - on the 13th of January, 2008.
The females’ necks are not as long as their male counterparts, but they have powerful legs. Using their legs to fold a leaf in half, females curl-up the end of a leaf. Mothers place a single egg into that curled-up leaf end. Each leaf nest seems to have its own design.
As she builds her nest, the female giraffe-necked weevil exerts a great deal of effort for a single egg. Among other things, she creates a kind of velcro strip which holds the nest together.
When everything is finished, she snips-off the leaf nest and lets it fall to the forest floor. If it survives, the egg will hatch there.
The photo, seen above, is by Axel Strauss.