(November 23, 2012 at 7:01 pm)Fidel_Castronaut Wrote: That was pigeons wasn't it?Nope, starlings. If I were to guess, pigeons have always been there. Or if they have been introduced by humans, it wasn't because of Shakespeare.

Speaking of birds and QI, did you know that the dodo became extinct because it wasn't afraid of people when they arrived, because up till that moment there had been no ground predators in Mauritius. Poor little guys

10:30 - on how dodos became extinct

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tk8vhG8mnFQ
But the eternal dilemma - how can we be happy amid the unhappiness of others?


