Right, so we need to get serious for a moment and talk about potentially the greatest creature in the world, namely, the Blue-Footed Booby, seen on the left dancing to attract a mate (!!!!I know, I could barely handle it either!!)
It gets better....
They are called 'booby' (from the Spanish bobo meaning 'stupid') as when they try to walk on the land they are really clumsy and fall over all the time!!!!
They live on some Pacific islands, most are found where Darwin found them: on the Galapagos.
Their nostrils are permanently closed.
The males have small pupils, the females have large pupils, and are larger.
The males do a dance where they stamp their blue feet (see above!) about in order to acquire a mate, they are then monogomous.
They keep their chicks warm with their blue feet!
When they want to talk, the male whistles and the female honks!
The Blue-footed Booby makes no nest, but lays its eggs on bare ground. The incubating birds defecate while on the nest, and the eggs become surrounded by a circular wall of excrement...I toyed with a few different jokes about it being like that in most houses there, but they were all too obvious.
So there we have it. Blue footed boobies.
I am sure that you will agree, super sweeeeeettt.
Just a little nugget of info on the boobie; a boobie trap is so named as 'boobies' (the birds) were so naive and easy to catch that sailors a few hundred years ago would simply put a circle of rope out, around some bate, on the deck of the ship and wait for one to land and hey presto a boobie in a noose, easy meal.
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