Friday, October 23, 2009

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Led off to cabin thirty-five. So Kris nearly gasped when Sarah passed her with a wink. Joe was right behind her carrying carpentry tools. Sandy stalked up the ramp last. "They wanted servants " Kris. buy imitrex Frequencies and which you can in theory stick anywhere in the room even behind the sofa. The principle is the same - you can't tell where the bass sound is coming from. The female kakapo can't tell where the booming is coming from either which is something of a shortcoming in a mating call. `Come and get me!' `Where are you?? 'Come and get me!' 'Where the hell are you?' `Come and get me!' `Look do you want me to come or not?' `Come and get me!' 'Oh for heaven's sake. ' `Come and get me!' 'Go and stuff yourself ' is roughly how it would go in human terms. As it happens the male has a wide variety of other noises it can make as well but we don't know what they're all for. Well I only know what I'm told o! f course but zoologists who've studied the bird for years say they don't know what it's all in aid of. The noises include a high frequency metallic nasal 'ching' noise humming bill-clicking 'scrarking' (scrarking is simply what it sounds like - the bird goes 'scrark' a lot) `screech-crowing' pig-like grunts and squeals duck-like `warks' and donkey-like braying. There are also the distress calls that the young make when they trip over something or fall out of trees and these make up yet another wide range of long-drawn-out vibrant complaining croaks. I've heard a tape of collected kakapo noises and it's almost impossible to believe that it all just comes from a bird or indeed any kind of animal. Pink Floyd studio out-takes perhaps but not a parrot. Some of these other noises get heard in the later stages of courtship. The chinging for instance which doesn't carry so well is very directional and can help any females that have been aroused by night after night of booming (it s! ometimes goes on for seven hours a night for up to three months) to find a mate. This doesn't always work though. Females in breeding condition have been known to turn up at completely unoccupied bowls wait around for a while and then go away again. It's not that they're not willing. When they are in breeding condition their sex drive is extremely strong. One female kakapo is known to have walked twenty miles in one night to visit a mate and then walked back again in the morning. Unfortunately however the period during which the female is prepared to behave like this is rather short. As if things aren't difficult enough already the female can only come into breeding condition when a particular plant the podocarp for instance is bearing fruit. This only happens every two years. Until it does the male can boom all he likes it won't do him any good. The kakapo's pernickety dietary requirements are a whole other area of exasperating difficulty. It makes me tired just to think of them so I think we'll pass quickly over all. eawwu668xcbws446uyftgu54445

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