Birds

[ginasketch]

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.

Comments

[3dsoul.livejournal.com]

Did you see that program about monkeys last night hosted by Attenborough?

[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.

[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.

[ginasketch.livejournal.com]

I loved the liar monkeys too.

It proved that they can imagine things like we can.

"SNAKE!"

[3dsoul.livejournal.com]

Yeah it's weird that chimps have no system of (obvious) communication like monkeys and people.

[ginasketch.livejournal.com]

Yeah, they have to be TAUGHT sign language.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

The dodo skeleton is cool.
Sexy smelling petrel woman is a bit weird, though. ;o)

[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.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

No, I didn't, actually. So it truly is extinct.

[ginasketch.livejournal.com]

Dead as the Dodo.:P

/runs

[moviegrrl.livejournal.com]

I noticed that last time I was there, funnily enough...

[ginasketch.livejournal.com]

Hee, I first learnt it from Bill Bryson.

[stepback.livejournal.com]

i see lorikeets!

[ginasketch.livejournal.com]

and Toucanets!

[saintsavin.livejournal.com]

*resists dead parrot jokes*

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Turtle evolution

[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.