RE: Otter's Official Television Thread
October 25, 2018 at 12:36 am
(This post was last modified: October 25, 2018 at 12:37 am by Rev. Rye.)
Here's something I rented from the library: David Attenborough's "Africa."
My favourite segments involve the birds, and, one of my favourites in this one involves ostriches teaching their chicks to find water. And while I can't find this one, here's a different clip of baby ostriches from another Attenborough documentary:
And, of course, the best parts of the animal kingdom had a fight with the worst of it: in one segment, these baby red-billed queleas were left alone while their parents went to find food. This leads to these monstrous-looking crickets trying to get into their nests and eat them. Naturally, I'm rooting for the birds, and, of course, as a nature documentary, we can expect a life or death struggle. So, one of them arrives in the nick of time to keep it from eating its altricial offspring, fighting with them. It kills the cricket, but not before it starts releasing this foul-smelling liquid that I think is its blood, but I'm not going to double-check because I never want to look at those monsters again. What does this do? It releases this chemical that attracts MORE of them. So what happens next. Well, good news: the swarm doesn't go after the birds. Instead, they become cannibals who feast on their dead cricket comrade. My reaction:
My favourite segments involve the birds, and, one of my favourites in this one involves ostriches teaching their chicks to find water. And while I can't find this one, here's a different clip of baby ostriches from another Attenborough documentary:
And, of course, the best parts of the animal kingdom had a fight with the worst of it: in one segment, these baby red-billed queleas were left alone while their parents went to find food. This leads to these monstrous-looking crickets trying to get into their nests and eat them. Naturally, I'm rooting for the birds, and, of course, as a nature documentary, we can expect a life or death struggle. So, one of them arrives in the nick of time to keep it from eating its altricial offspring, fighting with them. It kills the cricket, but not before it starts releasing this foul-smelling liquid that I think is its blood, but I'm not going to double-check because I never want to look at those monsters again. What does this do? It releases this chemical that attracts MORE of them. So what happens next. Well, good news: the swarm doesn't go after the birds. Instead, they become cannibals who feast on their dead cricket comrade. My reaction:
Comparing the Universal Oneness of All Life to Yo Mama since 2010.
I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.