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Capture: BOTY Potty., in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Ahhh! We have those on the lagoon!
The official word is they were Acclimitisation society releases - the fact is they were self-introduced... -
Capture: BOTY Potty., in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
They can fly!! :
An albatross can spend literally weeks on the wing....
Swim, dive to depths humans cant; have always, in all sane human societies, been reguarded as prognisticators/diviners/helpmates; can walk further & faster than we can, and show every variant of marriage & parenthood (and a few quite beyond!*) as mammals - including us!*Dunno of any human society that buries its potential young in dung hills, considerately within the the chicks' initial digging strength, breath-holding potential and directional capability...
I can think of quite a few groups of humans I'd love to see try that last caper-
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Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to Leigh Russell,
Me too-
I’ve noticed that when birds, as well as animals, are in difficulties they struggle with their emotions just as we do
It’s rule one with medics who deal with humans (I have a lot of medical people i te whanau) and with best vets – when my mother’s leeetle dog* ate rum&raisin choc (gah! Dark choc! Gahgah! raisins!! And triple gah! my mother had put it out of reach – she thought) the vet, after treating her, noticed the dog was shivering in her cage….so took her home to spend the night with her & her family – and other dogs.
If only all human medics were as insightful – and humane…
*Bella is a bichon frise: I dont have much time for wee dogs, but this one’s intelligence & responsiveness is, I am informed, par for the course for the breed.
O, and thanks re health- it is nice to feel like a human again instead of a mucus/sick machine!
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OnPoint: Re: Education, in reply to Che Tibby,
i think i remember that another significant factor is if the dad reads to the child.
reasons: dad is around
dad can read
dad gives enough of a fck to read to child
child is emotionally attached, secure etc.Report
My father died when I was 11. My youngest sibling was a baby.
My father didnt read to us -but we are all deeeep readers, and understand language very well.
We knew how to read before we went to school.
Reason? My parents read books, mentioned books they enjoyed, had books all round the home. As did my grandparents (my father’s parents died before I was really aware of them so we are talking maternal line here.)And my mother read to us all while we were babies and small kids, her finger trailing under the lines she read.In very busy days, she made time for that, for each one of us. Her reward?
We were hooked on reading very early, even the one who didnt talk until 5…If either parent takes that time (it was about 5 minutes per kid), the child will be literate. If it is reinforced all round the whanau, the adult will have solace/information/great pleasure for all their life…if they dont, with luck the kid gets Reading Recovery – or even Adult Ed. classes – but these are not ANZ-wide…
O, by the way, my mother's mother was educated until she was 12 and then was
a family- farm labourer. My mother's father was educated at a Maori school which, at that time, only offered education until students were 12- my mother left high school as soon as she could, as did my father. There was no history of tertiary education in the family until my siblings & self did stuff (and the younger generations now are into it - but not into breeding!) -
Capture: BOTY Potty., in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
O! Yes!
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Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to Leigh Russell,
Warms my chilly pensioner's heart Leigh!
Shags are amazing birds...they both dive and catch in water their prey. I am a trout fisher, but I abhor the line that some troutfishing groups continue to spin, that killing shags improves the trout fishery... the birds, like most birds, have their own, very real, intelligence as you demonstrated with your post- lovely!
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Capture: BOTY Potty., in reply to Tim Michie,
Oh! That reminds me – has anyone ever seen/heard of a ruru dead from gripping a branch so hard its claws got impaled?
There’s one in my apple tree which I only noticed the other day (a day after I got home from a fortnight in Oamaru…) I cannot understand how it ended up like that… Actually, I think I will just ring FJG DoC and get them on to it.
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Capture: BOTY Potty., in reply to Joe Wylie,
the abominable Sesqui 1990 avian sasquatch or ‘mascot’.
Sesquatch, surely?
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Capture: BOTY Potty., in reply to Kebabette,
Love that wee arms-akimbo kid!
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Capture: BOTY Potty., in reply to David Hood,
TaiAroa David - he is a tupuna of mine-