Improbable Ornithological Research
Short clips from a hilarious lecture about “the duck and its lover” can viewed at intervals 0:10-0:43 and 2:40-3:40 on this video:
posted by John L. Trapp at
7/17/2008 11:13:00 AM
Thursday, July 17, 2008
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My fascination with birds dates to earliest childhood. Entries in my high school senior yearbook profess my interest in ornithology. Birds and their conservation were the focus of a 33-year career as a professional wildlife biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that took me from the westernmost Aleutian Islands to the political intrigue of Washington, D.C. In retirement, birds remain my constant obsession.
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4 Comments:
Thanks for this bit of oddball, John. You might have known already that an ornithologist, Robert Dickerman, published on similar "research" involving squirrels back in 1960 (see Journal of Mammalogy vol. 41, pg. 403-404). He called it "Davian behavior," as in the limerick about Dave and a cave ... and the money he saved. Perhaps not improbably for the Internet these days, there is even a Wikipedia entry about it here.
Thanks for this bit of oddball, John. You might have known already that an ornithologist, Robert Dickerman, published on similar "research" involving squirrels back in 1960 (see Journal of Mammalogy vol. 41, pg. 403-404). He called it "Davian behavior," as in the limerick about Dave and a cave ... and the money he saved. Perhaps not improbably for the Internet these days, there is even a Wikipedia entry about it here.
Thank you, anonymous, for sharing this great bit of information about necrophilia. I was not aware that Dickerman had coined the term "Davian behavior" based on a ribald limerick, and I somehow missed Lehner's paper on "avian davian behavior." So, thanks again.
That guy is hilarious. I wonder if he does parties.
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