Lesson 1: When choosing gifts for your date, remember that girls prefer flowers to piles of fungus-ridden dung.
You know how some movies or TV shows are painful to watch because you see that a character is making some awkward mistake and you just know it will end horribly? This BBC video is similar. I kept thinking, "No, Mr. Vogelkop Bowerbird! Don't give her that! You'll never get mated!" But, honestly, I was thinking that at the flower-power fellow. Foolishly, I'd assumed that the lesson here was going to be something along the lines of, "Birds like things humans find repugnant and isn't that interesting."
Instead, the lesson turns out to be, "Everybody poops, but that doesn't mean they want to receive it as a gift."
VIDEO: Inside the Love-Den of the Vogelkop Bowerbird, BBC Life
Image courtesy the BBC, via Adam Abu-Nab
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Ah! That explains my success at courting....
And my failure...
Vogelkop Bowerbird, Vogelkop Bowerbird--that is really fun to say. I'm going to see if I can work it into conversation tomorrow.
From the videos I've seen about the bowerbirds, the like something blue. Once the bird weaves something blue into the archway, it's 'Daddy, come home!'
Saw them on the box last night. What sensible little birds they are! This is so much better then having an enormous tail like the peacock, or a big wobbly chest like the Kansas hot-water-bottle bird or whatever-it-was. They knock yourselves out attracting a mate, but they are still bird-shaped and they can still still fly off into a tree if something nasty appears.
Did you see the bit after the 'Life' program where they show how it was filmed? That other bower bird ought to have stood outside the photographer's hide. "Hey, forget the flowers and the mushrooms, babe - check this out: I've got a man with a camera in my bower. And he's got a lunchbox with Snickers bars."
yah thanks to mr attenborogh, last night I dramed a girl gave me a sh*t sammich. I had to brush my teeth in the morning to get the dreamed taste out.