and stayed at home,
after our evening meal we watched the second
DVD from David Attenborough's Natural Curiosities, in
fact we both enjoyed it so much we watched all of the third one as well!, just
a minor admission, the program that featured the Duck Billed Platypus mentioned
the spur that the male platypus has on it's hind limb, but did not then go on to say what it
was for or that the spur can deliver venom, delivering a
cocktail of substances that cause excruciating pain, then a
major faux pas, whilst talking about the electric catfish from the River Nile in Africa,
which as it happens I have swam with in
Lake Tanganyika, (Malapterurus
electricus), pictured above,
the producer for some
reason inserted some footage of the Tiger Shovelnose catfish (Phseudoplatystoma faciatium) that only naturally occurs in
South America! but those minor gripes apart it was a great set of DVDs, well
worth watching even if you only have the slightest interest in the natural world around us,
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