‘Pareidolia is the tendency for perception to impose a meaningful interpretation on a nebulous stimulus, usually visual, so that one sees an object, pattern or meaning where there is none.’
Hand-painted porcelain dolls by Annemarie Kwikkel-Smit. Sporting colorful Victorian and Edwardian fashion, these little ladies are only 5.5 inches tall and were baked in a solar-powered porcelain kiln.
Little African black-footed cats and their even littler kittens.
One of the smallest felines in the world, black-footed cats weigh only about 2 to 6 pounds and stand 8 to 10 inches at the shoulder. Their tiny size combined with their amazing senses and tawny, spotted coats helps them blend in to the arid steps and savanas of Southern Africa. They are also one of the most successful hunters in the animal kingdom. Each cat kills about 10 to 14 rodents and birds per night and takes more prey in a single night than a leopard does in a month. A shy cat that bolts at the slightest disturbance and is rarely seen by biologists, they are sometimes referred to as "anthill tigers" due to their ferocity and habit of making dens and raising their kittens in uninhabited termite mounds. Sadly, these tiny cats are endangered due to habitat loss from overgrazing and poisoning and trapping by farmers who unfairly blame them for killing their livestock.