Birds

Nov. 26th, 2008 09:53 am
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This morning the intranet informed me that there is a behind the scenes special about the Natural History Museum's Ornithology department on the BBC website. Videos include information about penguins, warblers, the dodo and Darwin's pigeons.

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Date: 2008-11-26 10:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 3dsoul.livejournal.com
Did you see that program about monkeys last night hosted by Attenborough?

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Date: 2008-11-26 11:10 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ginasketch.livejournal.com
Yes! It was fab.

The bit that really got me was when one of their group was taken by a monitor lizard and they huddled together and mourned.

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Date: 2008-11-26 11:31 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] karohemd.livejournal.com
It was a fantastic and fascinating.
What I really liked about it was that it didn't concentrate only on the cute stuff but for example also showed the viciousness of the baboons.
Another interesting revelation was that the voicebox of some of the lesser monkeys is actually closer to ours than that of chimps.
Tool use FTW, too.

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Date: 2008-11-26 11:35 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ginasketch.livejournal.com
I loved the liar monkeys too.

It proved that they can imagine things like we can.

"SNAKE!"

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Date: 2008-11-26 01:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 3dsoul.livejournal.com
Yeah it's weird that chimps have no system of (obvious) communication like monkeys and people.

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Date: 2008-11-26 02:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ginasketch.livejournal.com
Yeah, they have to be TAUGHT sign language.

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Date: 2008-11-26 11:23 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] karohemd.livejournal.com
The dodo skeleton is cool.
Sexy smelling petrel woman is a bit weird, though. ;o)

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Date: 2008-11-26 11:27 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ginasketch.livejournal.com
Heh did you know that there are no intact dodos in existence? The last one was chucked into a fireplace. The "taxidermied" models we have at the museum are fake.

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Date: 2008-11-26 11:40 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] karohemd.livejournal.com
No, I didn't, actually. So it truly is extinct.

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Date: 2008-11-26 11:46 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ginasketch.livejournal.com
Dead as the Dodo.:P

/runs

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Date: 2008-11-26 03:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] moviegrrl.livejournal.com
I noticed that last time I was there, funnily enough...

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Date: 2008-11-26 03:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ginasketch.livejournal.com
Hee, I first learnt it from Bill Bryson.

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Date: 2008-11-26 03:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] stepback.livejournal.com
i see lorikeets!

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Date: 2008-11-26 03:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ginasketch.livejournal.com
and Toucanets!

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Date: 2008-11-26 05:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] saintsavin.livejournal.com
*resists dead parrot jokes*

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Date: 2008-11-26 08:44 pm (UTC)

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Date: 2008-11-26 11:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] js84.livejournal.com
I went to the Tring museum ages ago before I was into wildlife. I'd like to go again now that I know these are in it.

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