#SIBCLive with Nick Baker – Episode 31

[Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] good morning from a very sunny new forest here in Hampshire we had a bit of a rainy day was Saturday was Friday night really bad and of course on Fridays I broadcast it hanging down and we are on that's right fine it was wet and then things have improved again now it's very warm here at the moment on regretting that the fleece and you may have noticed that it looks like I haven't brushed my hair I'm not becoming slovenly at all it's just that frankly it's got the stage when it needs a cut oh this is my time to shine I think and I'm not going to do it myself so that doesn't mean it was fun but if he's good for you last week we were watching the Ospreys in Paul Harbor fantastic web cam set up there we were watching a female that had returned and it started nest building and wasn't waiting for an absent male now I must MIT let it lapse a little bit as the weekend we know there have been other Ospreys in the area another unring bird was seen flying over the female went to check it out but nothing happened it just carried on flying so it's clearly not interested remember if the male does turn up or a mile does turn up pretty quickly now in order to get this breeding process going it would be the first time they will have bred in the south append them to 200 years and so last week we brought you the bird song from sound approach to UK we're encouraging you to get onto Twitter like them at sound approach okay and we still ask you please go and do that because they're still posting every single day however this week you're gonna switch it up a little bit and we are going to go over to Lucy luck he's gonna give us a little bit of a lesson in birdsong sits out in the garden you're not sure what we're hearing Lucy is fantastic at explaining exactly what the songs are and the footages - so have a look at this hello fellow self appraisal eaters and nature lovers welcome to my garden and my name is Lucy and I'm a self-described nature nerd and just love all things wildlife generally so whether it's funny whether it's invertebrates whether it's wild flowers I just find it all endlessly fascinating and I am obsessed with it and I do have a particular soft spot for odd bird life as I'm sure many of you do - we're all quite used to watching Birds so we use things like their size and shape and color all these visual clues to work out what we're dealing with each day this week I'm gonna be bringing you a little mini lesson on how to identify birds using just these so obviously it's spring at the moment it's all kicking off the birds are getting busy and getting down to it and that peak that absolute crescendo of birdsong is just around the corner so it's the perfect time of year to learn birds buy some now I'm gonna be bringing you some really familiar garden faces and some hints and tips on how to identify them just by their voice so the first one we're gonna go into is a really really familiar garden bird I'm sure you all know him off by heart and I've been prepared as usual and I have made myself some props so say hello to the Blackbird and this is of course the handsome male with that black plumage that gives it his name and he's got that golden eye ring and yellow beak to match just gorgeous and I'm gonna play some and talk over it and describe some little feet just to pick out to know that you're dealing with a black bird when you hear him so here we go first thing to listen to is like tone deep snow so it's wistful almost it's like deep sound you could listen for the main feature here is the fact the Blackbird sings for a little bit and then pauses and then he sings for a little bit and then pauses where I remember the Blackbird is by imagining very specifically and OH blow whistling and I like to imagine my granddad in his garden potting around doing a bit of gardening just whistling like shameless whistle and an individual black birdsong can vary quite a bit but it's always that step and start singing that pause and so if you imagine that bloke whistling singing pause often early in the morning it dusk hopefully so that's the first bird song of this week that we're gonna cover and hopefully you can get that down quite quickly so each day I'll be bringing you a new garden face and going through its song and teaching you how to remember it and I hope you've enjoyed and I look forward to bringing you the next one tomorrow no spoilers and thank you for watching back to you guys in the new forest no is more like the clan is the new black bear to be quite honest with you much more like the planning slightly forgetful grandfather whistling in the garden yeah you know whistles a bit of a change [Music] no it's come to me see top tip there some blue sea water and you can also follow her daily on Instagram where she's giving updates to learn you bird song at Lucy's on live webcams this week yeah you've been watching those Ospreys down in Pearl Harbor but across the world there are webcams just about everywhere covering you enormous range of specie so we thought we'd show you a few of these you might want to check into various points throughout the course of the day so you can catch up not just on the UK's wildlife in the spring season but also of that from the other species around the world the first one want to go to is this one it's a white towel Eagle's Nest and it's in Latvia now the Latvians have some fantastic nest sounds we're going to show you a couple more later in the week they are really fantastic but this one as you can see rather like the Ospreys down in Poole it's a beautiful picture the Eagles are already well into their breeding progress for this year and you can catch this one on YouTube YouTube and they've got good stuff now some of the webcams we're going to show you are in different time zones so you won't be able to see them live when we're broadcasting in the morning they'll have to wait until lunchtime or later but it's well worth while had a good answer yes they all sorts of things great gray owls some jungle tanagers in South America what house was there oh all sorts of birds from the southern hemisphere as well which was fantastic it's their winter down there albatross web and where these Eagles as well so from that we are going to skull of the day now we're doing it a little bit different it's not the typical skull of a daily you were used to the last week a week four of course last week we have this kind of anagram simply are so different animals release different color captive when we're trying to get get you to go shoe allogram socialize this year we are this week we are going back to skull of the day however we're doing UK mammals so take a look at this go have a look at the wick one of the biggest clues I can give you about this is the sagittal crashed up the top hair that is a big big giveaway there's only one mammal in the UK which anistar people dressed like that so I mean it's very very still to get your answers in below and we'll come back to that at the end you started easy they're gonna get more difficult as we go through the week but UK now we like to peek to young people on our boat I've had a number of really top young people so far it's now time to bring you Kabir school now Kabir is a remarkable young naturalist he's an ambassador for the Cameron purse polka trust come on cassava past works have young people to enabling key access was like particularly bet he's an RSPB youth counselor he's a London National Park champion and last year he won the are the BT owes Marsh award the young marsh award he is a brilliant birder possibly tomorrow number of occasions his enthusiasms infectious and here he is telling us what he's been getting up to during the lockdown hi everyone I'm Kabir and I'd love to share with you a few things I've been doing during the lockdown one of the main things I've been doing is birding from my bathroom window and that's proved to be quite successful many of you will remember the recent influx of common scoters we've had and I was lucky enough to hear them I've also been brushing up on my Burkle's and that's allowed me to identify a willow Warbler which is a first for the garden and you can hear them singing at this time of year I've also recorded my sightings in my notebook and I've recorded over 20 species now I'd love to show you a few things around my car this is my wildlife pop and as you can see it's a giant container and these are available on wetland conservation websites such as wwt and what's great about this particular pot is that there's no ticking required and it reenact a real-life wetland so it's got a shallow end a deep end and a lovely marshy area too and it really stands out at this time of year now the pond has become residents to a frog and a newt but unfortunately we've had a massive cat problem too so to solve that I got an RSPB cat deterrent but don't worry these do not harm cats nor do they harm other garden wildlife such as hedgehogs and birds we've got feeding station here too with sunflower pots suet balls and table mix - attracting many species and these nest boxes here provide a home for bloom and greatit's historically we have had a pair of blue tits nesting and it was wonderful to see the fledglings fly out to start their new lights and this camera trap over here has recorded the antics of the local foxes during the night this is the ground fleet and it acts as a safe refuge for the smaller birds to feed without disturbance from squirrels and London's parakeets the apples and the mealworms here attract a whole host of species including Robins blue tits and also the occasional black cap which likes to bathe in the water source self isolation can be very hard but I found that just looking for the birds and other wildlife around my garden has really improved my well-being and I'm sure it'll improve yours too so keep an eye out for the wildlife on your doorstep fantastic so I know he's absolutely brilliant it's so so enthusiastic every time I've met kabir he's been telling any loads of stuff just flooding out of him all of his enthusiasm which is absolutely fantastic you can follow him on twitter at call of the wild no it's not called see i double-l it's Kai a you oh this is name call okay a group of the wild UK on Twitter fall in there and you'll catch up with all of these marvellous antics so last week we had a new arrival if you can remember we had the birth of a little little lamb and I fell in love didn't I I've been going in to do with lamb all the time it's just we have been running a competition called hash tags to name that lamps and lots of viewers I'm sending in some great great suggestions and we've named it we've narrowed it down to the top course so I think you should be seeing them up on this screen now so get your comments and say which one you prefer well by the end of the pork we've got Shawn we do have Shawn we have to go we have all this what's that from Shawn yeah called report reference it was going live I'm vaguely remember Shawn the shoe yeah bouncy tiger that was anyway you have to attend Tom of course the incredible hero but no joking around his garden and raised over 20 million pounds for the NHS I quite like that one oh we have Cedric I'm not sure why Cedric console associate I'm not sure the cultural names this is no ordinary lamb I've got to say where I'm going everyone loves a lamb of course but this is a lamb from a breed of sheep called Bora race always are one of the rare breeds of sheep and they originated on the island of st. kilda - now cappella go off the west coast of Scotland very remote archipelago now up to the 18th century all of the Scottish teeth or what we call dumb face sheep and they were a breed of sheep that have been living there since the Iron Age then they took them out to these islands and they started crossing them with things like the Scottish blackface that they bought from the mainland and is that that gaze raised to these what we call head birdie and blackface we'll call Mariah she now in the 1930s the island was evacuated they took all the people off if it seemed too remote for place to live and they brought some up though they left the sheet there to start with that's right but there were very few in number so later on they brought a few over to the mainland and we've started three down here so that we can make sure that that breed doesn't disappear completely now they were originally bred for their fleeces and a meet but they're very small they're amongst the smallest out all of the sheep that we have so these days I'm very pleased to say they're used for conservation grazing and that's why we've got at the or a sheep here none of our sheep ever been turned into anything edible and they've all been living long and healthy lives I've got to say doing their nibbling duty in some of the fields around here and they're really good about and that's why other people get the sort of they're not as rare as they used to be none have gone up I think they're about 500 years now maybe 900 Rams maybe even a few more but they've got another one added to the list so get those names in tell us what you think out in the lamp should the cooled out those four names and by the end of the broadcast I'll have name no longer hash tag name that land something else we always love experts in the UK it's something is part of our tradition with more people who acquire knowledge through a lifetime of exploration curiosity and experience and very fortunately sometimes we put them on TV and people can see those skills for themselves and aspire to acquiring themselves years ago I had the pleasure of meeting at then young man now slightly older man but still younger than me who immediately I recognized as a brilliant naturalist and absolutely brilliant an activist his speciality is insects although he's good on birds in particular fan of wing noodles but his speciality is insects I'm very pleased today we can be joined from his garden in Devon by the one and only Nick Baker and Nick I think it's gonna tell us something about beetles I think I am can you that's good to hear I have to say Chris I'm sharing the unkept feeling at the moment yeah I'm thinking maybe it is return time to return to the to the ices I think if you get your um if you get your bleach out you go peroxide I can go for the ponytail again and I even have painted nails yes though it's getting really desperate down here I live with my wife and my daughter got bored on Saturday and they attack me with little brushes and toxic chemicals and painted my nails this time yes they had blue nails they're beautiful just go ahead you know I'll support you exactly and this is very topical of course because of course all I want to do merely I don't really grown-up things like like you know earn a crust and things up there so I just want to play and because the all the the all the chores and all the things that go with being a professional have effectively evaporated for me I'm able to spend if I want to spend three hours watching a pond skater sucking the juices out of a fly I can it's like being ten years old again but with no one looking over your shoulder and criticizing and said isn't it time you hung a washing up or emptied the dishwasher it's wonderful I'm actually enjoyed obviously it's only it's a silver lining to a pretty bad situation I've got no idea how and when we're going to get out this place is as a naturalist this is this is a dream come true anyway what I'm going to show you I've got I'm really into well all the spring is really happening at the moment there's all sorts of things going on in the garden and we've got some I've got a few things here but we're very lucky here on Dartmoor that's where I'm coming from we've got some fabulous some of the things I look out for about the same time as we're looking out for the swallows and the very first of the migrant Birds is we start getting things like that turning up in rows I don't know if you can see that on this they're just trying to work out how good I don't know how good that picture is but I'm not sure it's a bit early for that sort of behavior but these are oiled beetles these actually violet oil beetles and we're very lucky to have quite a good population here in and around the garden he's not actually made seeing at the moment the smaller one is the Miele obviously sitting on her back he's also got these amazing pinked antennae which he what he sort of wraps around the females antennae when he's actually mating how he actually gets the business done because he's considerably shorter than she is she's like over a long-wheelbase truck an articulated truck full of eggs he's got thousands of eggs in that big fat whoops a big fat abdomen and I love these things they they are they're just the sign of spring for me or one of them any one of the many so if you're lucky enough to have a little oh lucky that I don't even see their they've just done because I dropped them can you see that gooey yellow stuff on them yeah it's that is what gives them their name oil beetle that's cantharidin or contains a horrible nasty chemical can't can sarahdan I've got these little yellow blotches of it on my on my fingers it's really we shouldn't done that yeah it's really quite nasty that's why they can walk about seemingly Bold As Brass in the hedgerows feeding on you know nice succulent cell and dines and daffodil leaves and they just they love the juicy stuff and yeah they basically sequester all the toxins in their diet and then leak it out of little Glen's one-way glands like the vowels on their legs and that's why they get called the oil beetles because it's a really it's a really nasty stuff and they can walk I mean being black is as good as being brightly colored in the insect world it's a it's a warning color you can see them everywhere this walkabout so you get bits on a nice sunny flowery Bank there's these beetles everywhere but the bridge have you got anywhere you are Chris yeah a rare sight for us we always get very excited we find an oil beetle well I get very excited as well and they're coming here but but yeah it's I mean what it means is where there's oil beetles there's lots of other good things as well because obviously but obviously they're crazy life cycle so the the these beetles are that they're at it at the moment they're doing what they lots of things are doing in the spring and to then go around and start digging little holes and you can see this happening I mean if you're in a good it oil beetle area and there's patches of them scattered throughout the UK all up into Scotland and there's another one very similar on on the go at the moment as well which is the black oil beetle and very very similar obviously not quite as much Halleck not quite as green but very very similar and what they're both doing is feeding up mating and then the theme was a piglet holes in free friable soil and laying these clusters of thousands of eggs tiny legs which in a couple of weeks time will hatch out and this is where the really cool stuff starts these little tiny eggs hatch and these tiny the larvae not like maggots and grubs like a lot of beetle AVI these are hyperactive really furtive kind of aggressive looking little things and they scar up the nearest flower where it's a dandy lion or a celandine and they sit there and they sit in the flower they cluster and they sit there with these big horrible sort of hooky legs pointing up and on the end of each leg is our three claws and that's why they're called triangle ins and as a be any already insect comes down to to suck the nectar or collect the pollen these little things just grab on with these grappling hooks and get dragged off to wherever that insects going and this is why the female lays so many cuz it's a massive lottery because these grubs have to get on door these larvae have to hook on so the correct species of bee and it has to be one of the mining bees and they've got a hook on and get taken to back to the nest of that money be where they jump off and then start eating the brood of that mining B so they are parasitoids effectively so this is a parasitoid beetle that relies on a very specific couple of species of solitary bee in order to exist so just see one oil beetle is a miracle of luck and chance so they're fabulous things look and you can actually look out for the triangle ins as well they're very very furtive if you want to know there's some there's some pictures on my Instagram feed that I took a couple of years ago in my local churchyard very very exciting as exciting as finding the oil beetle itself but this is amazing they deal this hitchhiking business it is it's incredible how they can just get through those little bottlenecks and of course because they need the bees you have to have a good mixture of nectar rich wild flower rough grassland bare patches of soil which as we know is the perfect place the support whole variety of others is not just the insects but those are the plants and all the things go with it so they're a good indicator of a good place to be no pun intended fantastic I mean you can these insect life histories you know all of these power swords and the hyper parasitoids those that are parasites of Pallas eyes are simply extraordinary and when you watch sci-fi films such as alien and so on table you see where people get their ideas from cut you oh you say I mean this is it I mean they are I keep getting asked what my favorite animal is at the moment I'm doing these at the live Instagram is to keep me sane as much as anything every day and I get asked a lot what's your favorite animal and it's is a wasp actually even though I'm talking about beetles today I like what I like all wasps but my favorite was are the ones that most people don't notice which as you said all the Paris the parasites and the parasitoids by the way parasite I mean I know you know that but some of the viewers may not perish it-- is something that that lives with its host so it doesn't necessarily negatively affect its hosts function whereas a parasitoid gets inside the hose does its business and usually ends in the hosts demise so unfortunately for the the bees that take on the the larva of this particular oil beetle there that they don't dimly make it so that's that's the end of them so they were parasitoids but then you've got parasites which as you're so curious that you these beautiful little little wasps and flies that will often lay their eggs in larvae of other other insects caterpillars of first moths and butterflies are a very common host and then you've got these wasps that and then are able to detect which caterpillars have already got a parasite in them some of them will even will inject through into the parasite within the host and it is like it's like Russian dolls and then there's so there's parasites there's hyper parasites then there's secondary quite the parasites then there's tertiary her parasites and I believe there's even territory parasites so it is animals within animals with animals with animals and that's where it just becomes mind-blowing which is why even though I've only got a tiny little garden here I will never ever ever be bored and you know I mean if it wasn't a fact I had to earn money I'll be fine just what I've just yesterday I spent the whole I supposed to got the allotment at the back here which has never looked idea I'm supposed to be helping my wife prepare the ground for getting some other vegetables in and I just happened upon a zebra spider which is one of our fabulous little charismatic little creatures and I just went on this sort of like whimsical wandering following this this spider around on the shed with a camera the spider then caught this is the Micro moss of which I cannot identify but this is the joy of it you can actually I've got time to try and work out what that must was so when when does this happen you know when I was 10 I didn't have the the knowledge or the library or the experience and now it's like being being blessed with a second childhood um but with a little bit of the the joys a bit and a dog anyway the point is I'm not chasing this spider around I don't know what the point is I chase the spider around photographed it really enjoyed it and and then tried to see the mile it's pretty I think my wife was that worried I think as long as I'm out of her hair and I'm not moaning I'm not worrying about stuff I think at the moment and if you know she gets on my back and said come on we've always got tomorrow or the day after or the day after that but can I show you another this is another one this is slightly more widespread these here are bloody nose beetles slightly more widespread but very similar in their app it often get mistaken for oil beetles there they are the classic beetle this is the biggest of the leaf beetles anyway you've got this stuff I don't know what you call it down in Hampshire it's cleavers to most people but in Sussex where I grew up it's called sticky Lily it's one of the fed straws that goos Graf Spee Willy it's just a person's name anyway goose goose yes I know I know that one as well so yes sir these beetles love this stuff and anyway you've got goose grass or sticky really growing out the hedges have a little look for these things again they like it sunny they don't have a complicated life cycle like the oil beetle they're much more rounded as well but similar color I just hit add a cute I think you're kind of like a beetle that's that that's the one to go for and males in particular at these great big feet this one is a male it's got huge great big tarsi on the end of his legs which he uses the grip onto the female but keep an eye out for those or or get your viewers to keep an eye out for those and enjoy them as well and another thing is keep dropping everything and they also produce and the Queen owns they sequester that anthraquinone from inside the plants they take the toxins out of the plant concentrate them inside their own blood inside their hemolymph and then they when they are dropped by a naturalist they will then vomit up a little dollop of this red stuff and that's worth a little a little lick as well because that is really quite potent and again it's another animal that walks about boldly knowing that everything else except for the unwitting will realize that it is quite toxic and and that's how it gets away doing with it but it got amazing they are on the year you actually see these lovely big like quilted caterpillars and they're sort of almost metallic sleeping bags they'll be on the same stuff on the cleat cleavers and goose grass chomping away on that but anyway I just thought I'd share that with these are two of the the favorite spring beetles but there's loads of other things happening out there at the moment there's the first the tiger beetles I mean the news is this weekend people have seen Swift's some of the first Swift's have returned so as you about that time as soon as someone shout Swift I start looking for tiger beetles the tiger beetles are beginning to emerge as well so yeah lots of brilliant stuff happening at the moment even if the the larger human world is is not quite such a happy place certainly nature is full of some good stuff licking the bloody nose beetles vomit of course and just get the spied out get up to that allotment later oh well and I want you to see your hair bleached Chris tell you what decide to do it well we'll all do it at once stay sane stay healthy so you can follow Nick on Twitter at activation so make sure you go and do that as well so Spring has officially sprung and the animals are well they're pretty much having a bit of fun at the moment aren't they they are breeding of course there's lots of different breeding systems which are really really interesting the last weekly shows you this clip of a dunnock doing what we believe to be a territorial or displaying behavior have a look at this top of the fence on top of her fence jumping up and down something a bit bizarre you sitting in the ground you know I see them on the ground doing this ultimate never seen one up on a fence but I see them frequently beneath that that there's a bakery by the feeder and where they get a bit agitated with one of them so a bit more interest more interesting something very different about donek switch is very different from other birds of its size other some glad some things like that are generally when we're talking about songbirds in the breeding season we're talking about monogamy now when I say monogamy I don't mean lifetime monogamy I mean seasonally monogamous so birds will pair up with one another and for that season they will be monogamous now it's not to say that they are entirely sexually monogamous when the tail feathers are turned there might be some extra pair calculations going on however largely it will be that pair that stick with one another doughnuts have a slightly different system John janek's honestly well they do engage with monogamy but more rarely the most common system have done it is pollute and reap which means there are one female two two males or more she'll get into the most comment is polyandry now what happens is they need to copulate all all the time and they always can copulate up to a hundred times a day so females she's got to email about 200 times today but you want to be protecting your female because of course if you're that male you want to ensure that you're the one that is bothering the offspring so there is if you've got two males there will be a dominant one and a subordinate male the dominant one will be much more proactive at protecting the female sticking with her all the time however when as I said the tail feathers are turned maybe you go out to catch a sneaky little insect or fruit or something and then the subordinate male will take its opportunity and will mate with that female and the female will proactively look to mate for that to mate with that individual as well and so what you can see here is a fantastic clip that we said it was very very interesting behavior have a look at this have a look at what that mail is mail with one behind female is the one up front so that is something that was discovered about 30 years ago Nick Davis actually suggested something in life we saw this behavior and annexes weren't exactly sure what they were up to what they were doing so it's an internet Davis and 30 years ago he released a paper that kind of confirms what they were doing so what they are doing is something called cloaca pecking so the mail for a hex of the cloaca of the female causing her to eject a sperm package from the previous mail this helps to ensure that when typical pecking his sperm will be more likely to fertilize those edges when she lays them which is pretty fantastic it's a kind of a tree breeding population behavior that we see when a female is making sperm competition or something which is really bigger than that the world and we're beginning to learn more about it not just in birds but in many other species but you can witness this behavior I've seen it here literally in your garden if you have it but normally doing it right that was on the part in the open when I was doing it under the bushes so you could be working and then what they do is they do DNA test which is quite interesting you see the percentages of the dominant male and the subordinate male and interestingly it's about equal so what is the cost of being dominated that's quite a question but males are very good at determining if they were successful in parenting from that route and if they think that they haven't populated enough then that mayor won't assist in raising to their young but of course for female there are two benefits and she's got two males she doesn't have to work quite so hard so that's pretty good and the second one of course it's like a genetical safety net because of course it's one males not quite as good if not quite as rich even if you mate with a second and the chances of reproductive success are increased greatly so amazing is that all happening on your lawn another person who was very lucky Hobart in her garden was Alan Bradley he sent us this photograph look at this not a dark no this is a real exotic fly over get there navigation a little bit wrong they turn up in this well I was going to say the South of England but they turn up with pretty much all of the UK every spring and they will hang around on people's lawns they've got a very long sharp bill which they use for probing for things like leather jackets and other invertebrates in the soil but very lucky had one in your garden sandy McCloud also self isolating perk up it is a beautiful image of Amy raised wings like gorgeous sunset I think it's beautiful and I was just talking about sexual systems very interestingly and swans are uniquely very very monogamous there at lifetime monogamous and they're not like those some birds which are seasonally monogamous they will stay with their partner for life and they won't be gauge an extra pair copulation because we believe that they are you know able to get better productive successful party because they're able to learn more about ground X being dude it is okay skull of a day today court suits we showed you this at the beginning very very distinctive I think lots of um to see if anyone who's got this one right so yes lots of people did actually Facebook we've got Beth and needs Maria Claire Sarah Twitter mostly wild humane world lesson shower Emily for Morgan Holly Alec Collider YouTube Elizabeth Oliver Simon cell pool oh it's no to do getting this one it's a well done of course it is the iconic yeah it's very very distinctive when you feel this skull the bone is very very thick it has to be a very very strong skull because of course they're digging quite hard terrain lots of rocks picking fish and Facebook of course the sagittal crest on the sagittal crest is really important because that's where the draw buttons attach so they've got it's very very strong site and you can see the indentation here and the bottom of the jaw and this is where the muscle worked at it will then go around and it would hatch onto the top of the skull here in fact the males have a largest such as grace and there was a report of the largest one is about 15 millimetres tell you one thing one time I was collecting badges girls because I was watching a large number of sets of new force and treatment you'll find them not in good condition like this but they would have died on the ground and the animals then dig them out and they're cleaning out their sets and I measured all the four sagittal crest because this this extension of bone here continues to grow throughout the animal's life and what you see is that the older males have the highest sagittal crest so I should like to dig into my archives and see the maximum the cover other characteristics though are the canines that the fun caught in are the prominent molars at the back of the other thing and the fact that the sutures all of those little cracks that we typically see in skulls are fused all about giving it strength because in the past it would have been being attacked by bears and wolves and other potential predators knowing that lamb named that lamb they know the answers in and I have to say many of you went for the same one so 2524 of you put your own students and I have to say Lam it's called captain Tom captain Tom of course 60% voted for Pat and Tom and second was 22% with Cedric then we have Sean at 13 and take it was 5 so captain Tom Tom I imagine I imagine there will be any number of things named after captain Tom well it's great and deservedly so well that's about what we talked well I can't wait to get this topic we're just like saying happy birthday to Karen Pollitz food happy birthday and of course with the live webcams as well we'd like to credit Latvian Wildlife Fund - who are putting this lampion sign for nature yes those that are doing the white town evilness so check out that in fun beneath nature and that white child evilness which is truly fantastic we'll be back tomorrow with Lizzy daily she's gonna be telling us about wow seabirds I believe that on the coast yeah Lizzy coming up enjoy your day and stay safe ceasefire

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Published: Mon Apr 20 2020