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The dragon's back.
Last night I caught an episode of Nature on PBS called "Andes:
The Dragon's Back." It was a great program. South America has an
incredibly diverse mix of geological features, flora and fauna. It was
an area of the globe that I wasn't very familiar with except in the
archaeological sense, and I found the program fascinating.
I did catch one error, though. They said that one culture of people
there in South America had been on the continent for 20 000 years. In
fact the earliest archaeological evidence for humans in South America
is 15 000 B.P. — and even that has been disputed.
My favorite part of the episode were the penguins. In one segment they
showed a group of penguins trying to negotiate through a pack of sea
lions to get to the ocean. Evidently sea lions will eat penguins in the
water, but generally leave them alone on land. So it was fun to watch
this group of penguins rather brashly move their way through the herd.
At one point a penguin jumped up on top of one sea lion's back and down
again. The sea lion thought that was a little much — he leaned over
and bit the penguin on the butt. LMAO.
And the dances of the penguins and the flamingos were wonderful.
:lol:I sorta already did. Or at least my head and shoulders did. :p
I want to dance with the flamingos!:lol:
PS thanks for sharing Ed,i will watch it in a rerun (usually they run in the middle of the night again! )another Flamingo Dancer:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S98igklNBDc
Both those flamingos are totally hot!I've always wanted to go to Spain and see that. But the best I've been able to do was the movie Carmen. (That's not the opera, that's the successor to Blood Wedding.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzGP5pMoUk8I love the dance!! 🙂
I should mention too that Angeliki informed me that the flamingos are pink because they eat shrimp and lots of beta-caratine. True story.(And thanks for the links!)
Penguins….
Ed one day you will ! Actually my first Flamingo dance experience was in Miami Florida! Yes Sir! I went to a Restaurant that Spaniards had and the Flamingo Dancer was the most amazing 5'9" tall woman I ever saw,later did watch the real thing in Spain but to this day I remember my Florida Flamingo Dance night 🙂
The dance of the flamingos was elegant, beautiful, fascinating and kinda funny all rolled into one. I've only seem them in zoos all standing on one leg in a mass of beautiful pinkish orange. Arizona has these nuisance birds called Grackles. Never saw them before twenty years ago. They are scavengers which is the reason I don't like them because they go into smaller birds' nests and break up the eggs and eat the tiny embryos. As much as I don't like them, they have an interesting mating dance. There were four or five of them standing in sort of a circle all looking to the sky and making a sound. Then they pointed their beaks to the ground, then back up again, all the while making a high pitched tweet or whistle. I watched them for several minutes till CJ came tearing out the doggie door after them. CJ got paid back by all her bird chasing one week. There was a Mocking Bird nesting in the neighbor's Bouganvilla and everytime CJ'd come near the back wall, that momma bird kept dive bombing her and poking her on the back or the butt. I'm worried about the Sparrow family nesting in the bird house on my patio. I can hear the babies chirping and I fear when they are learning to fly that CJ is going to get them.
Darko :lol:this is the cutest picture I saw all day! :lol:have a great day yourself :)1 am in NYC already :eyes: we had a small party over here tonight and I am trying to see how my friends are doing…….:)
@ Angeliki.You know, the minute you look at air fares from the U.S. to anywhere from Austria on down the fares double. Cheaper to go to northern Europe. I found a hotel on the island in Venice for about $500 US for 3 nights — not exactly bad for Venice and they looked really nice and had canal views. But the air fare would cost $2,000 US. They say it's not expensive to go to Venice anymore unless you go during Carnival. And they are right. The rooms are reasonable. It's the air fare that kills you.@ Darko.Is that a purse that one penguin is carrying? :lol:@ Pam.Great stories! Man vs. Nature. Or Dog vs. Nature. 😆
Remember the Carlsberg Sport Commercials with the penguin. It developes…
Yes 😆
That penguin is going to get in some real trouble someday if he doesn't shape up, I've got a feeling. :p