Penguins
My goodness!
Never happened before, not once, but I just spilt an MGT (Malawi gin & tonic)! Caught most of it, fortunately.
I was reading about Apsley Cherry-Garrard, in the 2002 biography by the delectable Sara Wheeler, and his experiences in the Antarctic.
"After the last box of lavatory paper had been counted out, twenty-nine sheets were issued to each man."
As I undestand it, this had to last them two weeks or more, depending on the blizzards. I find it is always uplifting to read about blizzards, when one is suffering from a heat-wave, as we are, in Kalimbuka. Fortunately, for the health, if not the gardens, little humidity.
With respect to early Antarctic exploration, and specifically the emperor penguin, I wonder if Hotboy, Rob McJ or anyone else, has an opinion on 'ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny'? What with their extensive experience of penguins in the UnHeard of Islands, one will expect some terse observations.
MM III
Never happened before, not once, but I just spilt an MGT (Malawi gin & tonic)! Caught most of it, fortunately.
I was reading about Apsley Cherry-Garrard, in the 2002 biography by the delectable Sara Wheeler, and his experiences in the Antarctic.
"After the last box of lavatory paper had been counted out, twenty-nine sheets were issued to each man."
As I undestand it, this had to last them two weeks or more, depending on the blizzards. I find it is always uplifting to read about blizzards, when one is suffering from a heat-wave, as we are, in Kalimbuka. Fortunately, for the health, if not the gardens, little humidity.
With respect to early Antarctic exploration, and specifically the emperor penguin, I wonder if Hotboy, Rob McJ or anyone else, has an opinion on 'ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny'? What with their extensive experience of penguins in the UnHeard of Islands, one will expect some terse observations.
MM III
posted by zomba at 1:08 PM
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Mingin'! The penguins on the Unheard Ofs are on an evolutionary spurt. Their waddling gait now resembles nothing less than a goosestep and they have started developing wee moustaches under they eyes. I hazard a guess that there may be some jiggery pokery going on when my back is turned! This should help! Hotboy
The theory of recapitulation was first espoused in 1866 by a German relative, the zoologist Ernst Haeckel. Basically, penguin species tend to evolve back into butlers and head waiters. Or vice versa.
Later work on Mynah Birds at the McDonald Institute by Nobis Ralwin has since discredited the theory.
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