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.
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.
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 10:57 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-11-26 11:10 am (UTC)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)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)It proved that they can imagine things like we can.
"SNAKE!"
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Date: 2008-11-26 11:23 am (UTC)Sexy smelling petrel woman is a bit weird, though. ;o)
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