Wild Life!!!
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Topic: Wild Life!!!
Posted By: Peter
Subject: Wild Life!!!
Date Posted: June 20 2006 at 23:21
 Maybe this belongs in "Bugs in yer Teeth," but today on my bike I saw:
Lots of butterflies on the road
 They are attracted to bear sh*te, it seems...
 I also saw:
 Boing!Boing!and a wee:
 awwwww...
  = where's MOM?Vrrrrrooooooooommmmm!!!!!
 !   But the best, the PROGGIEST, was yet to come... When I stopped by a lake a...
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...
...wait for it...
a...
 RAN RIGHT PAST ME!!!
Aiiiiiieeeeeeee!!!!!!***************************************************************************
You can post pics of the wildlife you see in your area here! (Please
 )South America should be interesting.... ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
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Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: June 20 2006 at 23:25
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Peter, We have, at last count, six rabbits (two "grown-ups", a "teenager", and three "babies") in our backyard. Haven't seen the babies in a while though (unfortunately I did see a cat roaming around back ther), but the teenager is usually out and about. I'll see if I can snag any pictures. |
Posted By: Arsillus
Date Posted: June 20 2006 at 23:27
Where do you come up with this stuff?  So random!
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Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: June 20 2006 at 23:35
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BIRDS! BIRDS! BYRDS!
South America is the continent of the birds!!!
 Some hummingbirds or colibris are commonly seen near where I live...
 This one is spectacular: the red tanager (Ramphocellus bresilius), the scientific name says all: only found in Brazil (rare but not endagered).
More to come...
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Posted By: chamberry
Date Posted: June 20 2006 at 23:36
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Genius, yet, abstract at the same time and funny all the way
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Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: June 20 2006 at 23:37
Great thread  I love birds and wildlife and watching nature programs on TV.
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Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: June 20 2006 at 23:39
And since here is a forum dedicated to music why not some prog-birds?
http://www.aultimaarcadenoe.com.br/sonsnaturezaavesingles.htm - http://www.aultimaarcadenoe.com.br/sonsnaturezaavesingles.htm
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Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: June 20 2006 at 23:39
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We live right next to a small wooded area that is being cleared for housing and more and more little animals are making their way up to our yard. Mostly "cute widdle bunny wunnies," but some squirrels too. ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: June 20 2006 at 23:43
Bunnies! (\></) (\_/) (0.o) (0.o) (><) (><) We've got some of them here, in the mountains  ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ocellatedgod" rel="nofollow - last.fm |
Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: June 20 2006 at 23:45
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http://media.ebaumsworld.com/wmv/birdmimic.wmv - The greatest bird ever
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Posted By: Cygnus X-2
Date Posted: June 20 2006 at 23:45
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We have everything from deer to foxes, even to wild turkeys in my backyard. We also get ducks in the pool at my house often... no bunnies or things of that nature, though, unless you count skunks... ------------- 
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Posted By: James Lee
Date Posted: June 21 2006 at 00:39
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Critters I seen today:  (dead  in a parking lot)and  (there's a beauty just like her in my garage right now) and coming home I even saw some wild  grazing next to the Red Rock area. Not a lush ecosystem, but definitely a fascinating one! ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/sollipsist/?chartstyle=kaonashi"> 
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Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: June 21 2006 at 00:40
 Here in Romania,you mess with this,you mess with the law.   Also this ugly guy has only three mates to make conversations in Romania. ------------- 
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Posted By: crimson thing
Date Posted: June 21 2006 at 01:12
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I was all set to tell about the foxes & owls & raptors & deer & pheasants & swallows in our patch - then I saw Atkingani's humming birds & JL's arachnids & the Romanian - mountain goat, is it? - and thought Nah........ ------------- "Every man over forty is a scoundrel." GBS 
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Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: June 21 2006 at 01:15
Black (mountain) goat. -------------
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crimson thing wrote:Posted By: NetsNJFan
Date Posted: June 21 2006 at 01:59
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I have deer and wild turkey in my backyard, I love it. We also have lots of groundhogs, who fight with the rabbits over grazing turf--hilarious. ------------- 
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Posted By: mystic fred
Date Posted: June 21 2006 at 02:33
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i took part in the last british national "birdwatch" survey, and in an hour counted 47 birds, including, starlings, robins, pigeons, a few sparrows, blue tits and great tits. a fox ran across the road in front of my car this morning, we often see them in the suburbs of London as they are being hounded out of the countryside. the way things are going we'll be seeing badgers soon too! -------------  Prog Archives Tour Van 
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Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: June 21 2006 at 02:33
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Gosh, James, that was a Black Widow spider in your pic, wasn't it? Can't say I'd like to see one of those at close quarters... Here in Rome there may be some wildlife, but mostly it's birds (blackbirds often go on a rampage in my flower pots, looking for seeds or insects to eat...  ) - when you don't get to see some disgusting sewer rats  . The Eternal City, though, is quite famous for its large cat population, which used to be much larger. That's something I really love about it!  BTW, Rico, we do also have those mountain goats (chamois is the French name, camoscio in Italian) in the Western Alps, and they're also protected. |
Posted By: mystic fred
Date Posted: June 21 2006 at 02:36
the australian lyre bird!!! fantastic footage from David A, indeed the most amazing bird there is! (now we know where you're from!!) ------------- Prog Archives Tour Van
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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: June 21 2006 at 03:21
Splendid - I remember seeing the original footage of this & being stunned by the impressions... especially the camera with motor drive. ------------- 
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: June 21 2006 at 05:26
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In Holland, my work site in situated in the sand dunes and it is a nature reserves
We have seagulls, water fowls (there is one nesting just outside my window), foxes, badgers, hares, rabbits, herons, ibises, grouses and we even have strange Notus animals: when we go on a shooting rampage, killing everything in sight, there are those strange orange coloured/dressed animals turning around , throwing their arms up and yelling not us, not us!!!
In Brussels, the second greenest city after Berlin in Europe (in terms of garden and parks surface/per inhabitant) , we have foxes, badgers, hawks, squirrels, tourists, pigeons (other than the previous form), chipmunks, a host of common birds.
In my Ardennes hide out, I have an howl nesting in the old castle ruins next to the cottage, I regularly get woken up by badgers foraging around the house. During daytime all sorts elks, foxes, hawks, woodpeckers, kingfishers, etc...
------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Logos
Date Posted: June 21 2006 at 07:40
There's a pair of Robins in my backyard.   |
Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: June 21 2006 at 07:58
Well the venison is common enough fare, but is groundhog good served with rye, then?  BBQ'ed, or fried?
 Remember to recycle the empties -- neighbors nosing through your green box be damned!
 ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: crimson thing
Date Posted: June 21 2006 at 09:19
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We have fun at the moment watching the behaviour of the woodpeckers (Greater Spotted) on the peanuts we put out for them. This year, for the first time, there's a young one - fluffier & apparently fatter than the parent, but more muddy-coloured - who clings to the wooden post on which the peanuts hang, but seems to have no idea how to get the nuts. The parent hammers away (showering the young bird with nut fragments) then has to feed the youngster beak to beak - he does try, hammering at the wood & the underside of the feeder, but doesn't seem to get it.......kids, eh? ------------- "Every man over forty is a scoundrel." GBS
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Posted By: JayDee
Date Posted: June 21 2006 at 11:54
We have the worlds smallest primate:
 The Bohol tarsier...
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and one of the worlds largest eagle:
 The Philippine Monkey Eating Eagle
both endangered sadly..... ------------- 
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Posted By: maani
Date Posted: June 21 2006 at 12:27
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Well...
For sheer terror, I'd pit the New York City rat against any of yours! LOL. Not only are some of them as large as small cats, but they travel in packs, and there are an estimated 100,000,000 of them! Talk about Willard and Ben!! These guys would eat your Romanian mountain boar alive in about 10 minutes!
Yikes!
Still, we do have a couple of red hawks, some peregrine falcons, and, of course, the carriage horses and millions of pigeons. That's what passes for "wildlife" here in the Big (wormy) Apple.
Peace.
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Posted By: Arsillus
Date Posted: June 21 2006 at 14:09
We don't get any wildlife in our yard (even though we live next a nice wooded creek area) and if we do, one of our three cats will kill it in no time. Mostly half-eaten animal corpses remain. 
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Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: June 21 2006 at 14:37
 That would make a good album title -- ever write death metal lyrics? ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: June 21 2006 at 14:49
I'll say he's small, if he can hide behind that little red X!
The tiny tarsier is in danger of disappearing, for sure!
 Cool Eagle though -- I like his retro 80s Don Henley "do."
 I'll try to coax yer tarsier out -- is this the wee blighter?
 Awwww... sure the timid little tyke is wide-eyed with fright!
Leave 'im alone! ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: Arsillus
Date Posted: June 21 2006 at 14:51
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Posted By: Empathy
Date Posted: June 21 2006 at 14:54
WOW! That IS one awesome bird. I bet they're outlawed at the CIA, like the Furby Dolls. ------------- Pure Brilliance: 
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Posted By: crimson thing
Date Posted: June 21 2006 at 16:03
Well, if there's anything in the animal kingdom cuter than the Bohol Tarsier - I don't think I could cope....... ------------- "Every man over forty is a scoundrel." GBS
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Posted By: Bern
Date Posted: June 21 2006 at 16:13
In my parts, I see so much of these it's getting annoying : But they're so cute They is also a lot of these :  Aaaaw ... Maybe not after all  -------------  
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Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: June 21 2006 at 16:15
But I hardly it is the exact black goat If even this exists somewhere else,we are done for it as unique country values
I SSSSSSSSSSSSOOOOO LOVE BIRDS! I SSSSSSSSSSSSOOOOO LOVE THIS ONE!  -------------
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Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: June 21 2006 at 16:16
FOL! -------------
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Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: June 21 2006 at 17:40
 A (wo)man's cousin that left recently the list of endangered species (apparently he is safe now).
Golden lion tamarin.
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Posted By: JayDee
Date Posted: June 21 2006 at 18:53
hehe...
His eyes are larger than his brain.  -------------
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Posted By: crimson thing
Date Posted: June 22 2006 at 03:45
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The picture of the golden lion tamarin shows what a staggering range of wildlife Brazil has!
As a kid, I was given an illustrated book about the wildlife of the Amazon rainforest; although, with hindsite, it was rather twee & anthropomorphised the larger animals, it nevertheless was one of my favourite books at that time. One creature that fascinated me particularly was the huge freshwater fish, the arapaima (also known as, I think, pirarucu?). These apparently grow to 3m! Have any of our Brazilian friends here ever seen one? ------------- "Every man over forty is a scoundrel." GBS
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: June 22 2006 at 04:00
Stoooooopid friggin animal
 I remember mountain biking in mid-Ontario in the mid-80's on a wild wooden path, and scaring the sh*t of one of those disgusting things; It spewed its stank on my foot and I was really marked for two weeks. Had to change the pedals, get rid of the sock and the shoes, and had to take tomato bath for my foot for two weeks to get the smell away. Of course no social contact was possible during that time
, even with myself >> wherever I went this stank accompanied me, even in bed. Memoooooriiiiiiiies !!!!!!!...............
------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: June 22 2006 at 08:11
Yes, c.t., I saw the pirarucu and also tasted its meat. Really good, but not common in Southern Brazil. The arapaima or pirarucu has no natural enemies, except some piranhas or, in shallow waters, the jaguar, but unfortunately is easy to 'caught' since they have lungs and need to come to the surface to breath. Some "farms" are being implemented to guarantee the meat for the local population and also not to disturb the environment.
Another South American mammal (very common still in Brazil), the lobo-guarį or red wolf, the tallest canidae (although not the strongest or the heaviest):
 ------------- Guigo ~~~~~~ |
Posted By: Australian
Date Posted: June 22 2006 at 08:20
 WOMBAT ------------- 
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Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: June 22 2006 at 10:07
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Right on! Great pics, folks -- I love the Brazilian Tamarin, and the chubby Wombat.
Keep 'em coming, and please, don't just list animals from your area (how interesting is that?), but take the time to google and post an image or two! All critters welcome (bugs too) -- what is common to you will be exotic to another half a world away.
Saw lots of these awesome denizens of the deep last summer, when my family and I went to my Newfoundland home:
  A truly magnificent sight! Watching these behemoths breach, dive, and slap the surface with their massive tails is an experience never to be forgotten!  ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: JayDee
Date Posted: June 22 2006 at 10:07
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Posted By: Arsillus
Date Posted: June 22 2006 at 15:14
Here's the extent of the wildlife here in Texas-
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Posted By: crimson thing
Date Posted: June 22 2006 at 17:18
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^ Hmmmmm........looks like the little critturs cunning yellow striped camouflage didn't quite work........ ------------- "Every man over forty is a scoundrel." GBS
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Posted By: mystic fred
Date Posted: June 22 2006 at 18:24
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This little chap is the American Grey Squirrel,  i encounter them daily, and they are getting rather aggressive these days, they actually stop and growl at you. They are often attacked and eaten by rats, and i heard some have cross-bred, producing super-rats that climb trees!! They are becoming a real problem in Britain, as you will see from this link....
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4635330.stm - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4635330.stm
the squirrel has its allies though....
http://www.savethegrey.org/ - http://www.savethegrey.org/
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Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: June 22 2006 at 18:24
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I like these guys!
They do not nest here but every year, during Winter (now), more than 100 are rescued only inside Guanabara Bay (Rio de Janeiro). They were carried to a special zoo where they are nourished and medicated and later returned to sea, stronger and wiser. I myself participated in some rescues years ago.
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Posted By: Arsillus
Date Posted: June 22 2006 at 22:11
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Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: June 23 2006 at 09:34
I wouldn't be so sure about that!My sources inform me that this cute little critter hails from Texas:
    Her tender, homesick paean to the Lone Star State is especially moving:
Wish I was back in Texas, The ocean's no place for a squirrel, Wish I was in Texas, Prettiest place in the world, oh no. I guess deep in my heart I'll always be a Texas girl I wanna go hommmme hooommmmmme hommme oh oh Yoldle ay e oh, yodle ay e oh, yodle ay e oh, a lay-ee, a lay-ee. I wanna wake up in Texas I miss those wide open skies. I miss my 20 acres, bar-b-ques, And peacan pies, oh why? When I'm so far from you, Texas, all I can do-o is cry. I wanna go ho-oome, Ho-oome, I wanna go ho-ome! Such poetry! Such pathos!------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: chamberry
Date Posted: June 23 2006 at 12:55
I know of that squirrel. I once saw here flying away when it heard a siren of some sort. I only maneged to take one picture of it before flying away...  -------------
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Posted By: the man machine
Date Posted: June 24 2006 at 06:23
| really great photos! . maybe i will be arsed to scan some of my photos in. |
Posted By: glass house
Date Posted: June 24 2006 at 09:08
Here is of my favorite animals, just his sheer grace and the fact it is black :
 A black leopard, there is no such thing as a black panther.
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Posted By: Logos
Date Posted: June 24 2006 at 09:27
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^You have those in Netherlands??
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Posted By: glass house
Date Posted: June 24 2006 at 09:33
Nah
. Peter Rideout said : Keep 'em coming, and please, don't just list animals from your area . |
Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: June 24 2006 at 09:45
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Posted By: Arsillus
Date Posted: June 24 2006 at 10:35
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Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: June 25 2006 at 10:22
I guess that sentence was unclear.
But notice that "list" is underlined, not "your." I do want animals from your area (no zoos, please), but I don't want mere lists (as some had posted); I want pictures too. (Seeing a picture of an animal is more interesting than reading its name!)
So sorry, Dutchie, but black panthers are off the Netherlands list -- perhaps post a pic of the industrious Dutch beaver that builds all those famous dikes....
Seriously though, I know Holland is not exactly untamed, but you must have birds and some small mammals there. What gives you a wee thrill (animal wise!
) when you sight it there, as you bicycle past the tulips and windmills?I saw this guy yesterday (lots of them around here), and he builds amazing dikes (dams)and lodges:
   He can cut down some really big trees! The beaver gets immortalized on our 5-cent coin because he is such a hard worker (hence the expression: "as busy as a beaver."
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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: June 26 2006 at 03:50
Splendid! Let's all play WOM Sorry, Bern, but as for these two: 
That's just a pair of slippers (albeit a pair which may just smell a little worse than mine... )
And I'm sorry to each and every one of you, but I have to say this... HEY! PETER.... 
NICE BEAVER! -------------
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Posted By: the man machine
Date Posted: June 27 2006 at 05:13
actually if you have ever been lucky enough to see a space bird you would know it is far far greater. its kinda like a condor but twice the size and flies 150km above the earth. |