Legs

The harvestman makes its way through the mossy woodland on eight spindly legs, delicate tentpoles supporting a plump body with two tiny eyes. These arachnids, sometimes called daddy longlegs, are cousins of spiders whose outdoorsy lifestyle…

Joyce Poole was 6 years old and lived in Malawi when her family went north to see the wild African elephants in what is now Amboseli National Park in Kenya. When Dr. Poole's father, who was a serious photographer, spotted a particularly…