Blue suede shoes
| 18 June, 2010 | Richard P. Grant |
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Are you a blue-footed booby? Perhaps you’re more of a wombat or gnu, or even a great bustard.
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More to the point, have you dressed up like one?
On the other hand, perhaps you’ve always wanted tiger feet? Either way, now’s your chance: today is Wear your Wildlife to Work Day, part of the BBC Wildlife Fund‘s appeal to help save threatened species and habitats. They’re doing this in conjunction with the Galapagos Conservation Trust’s Blue-footed Booby Day, so if you’ve got some blue wellies, or maybe even blue suede shoes (uh huh. Don’t you step on them) put them on and do some awareness-raising. If you’re not that organized, don’t fear! You can download booby feet, and simultaneously make a donation, which is what this is all about, really.
Blue footed boobies (all right, is that really the plural?) famously inhabit the Gal
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The Wikipedia extract about booby courtship is inaccurate. BOTH sexes ‘dance’ around each other raising first one foot high, then the other. Then, either simultaneously or one after the other, they point their beaks skyward, open their wings wide, and vocalise. The male makes a high pitched sound and the female a booming sound. They then begin dancing again. I have been to the Galapagos three times and have watched these dances many times.
Thanks, Jane. If you’ve got a good cite for that, it would be good to correct the article.