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Sunday, May 27, 2007

You Can Keep Your Penguins -
The Greatest Bird Ever

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

that...is insane. my roommate and i were like....what the HELL??

what kind of bird is that? we missed what the guy said.

Sharkbear said...

Lyre bird.

Anonymous said...

Copy-cat.

Show off.

Sharkbear said...

How dare you forsake the king of all birds!

Joe said...

Most. Best. Ever.

Where did this clip come from? We must know!

Paige said...

I think you could possibly be winning the "Best Blog Ever" award based solely on these nature clips. Zhubin better start filming people tripping or falling down steps in NYC and posting it on his blog...he is falling behind.

You need that old man's job...you would rock at it...and you could do that voice perfectly for animal shows.

Sharkbear said...

That "old man" as you call him, is Sir David Frederick Attenborough, a man who became famous for nature documentaries on the BBC. He was doing this well before there was an Animal Planet or Discovery Channel, which makes him awesome.

I haven't seen the original documentary this came from, but I've seen the bird on a few different shows on the Animal Planet, including The Most Extreme.

The Most Extreme, if you haven't seen it, is a fantastic show that does a top-10 countdown of the most interesting (or, for marketing purposes: extreme!) creatures within a certain category.

One of the best animals I've seen on this show is the Pistol Shrimp, which I will now post...