Re: so who does know about animals?

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On Apr 29, 11:20 pm, Mentally Sub-Normal <sarah.j.balf...@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Hmm...you've got me thinking now. The woodpigeons round here are
enormous (how the hell they manage to take off again once grounded, is
a miracle).

They're quite comical - they flap their wings frantically until they
get to a decent height then they 'glide', which involves falling like
a stone but with some forwards momentum. When they get too low, they
flap frantically again until they gain height, then 'glide' again.

And I'm pretty sure there's a family of wrens in the Chinese
gooseberry (yes, a kiwi fruit but we won't get any, not least because
of the weather, but because its one of those plants that has the male
and female parts on completely separate plants, and we've got a male -
it's got hideous, dark green 'tentacles' (there's no other word for
them, covered in brownish-red hairs) and it stinks in the summer (I
mean really pongs - like an open sewer).

Apparently the pollen is unattractive to bees. Together with the
smell, that suggests the normal pollinator is a fly or a moth.

Evil Nigel
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