Not one of mine but ...

[Pabmusic]

All in all, it's a rather good reminder that Beatrix Potter and Kenneth Grahame were slightly off the mark about animal behaviour.

...Re mercia's - my thought too, he would have been after the nearest blood vessel if only he could have found his way past the feathers.

We're still not quite sure why theropod dinosaurs grew feathers - they definitely didn't fly. Warmth is a likely reason, sexual display another, but there's also protection against predators. They were often quite vulnerable and feathers might have offered a little protection. Their descendants - birds - don't use feathers just for flying.

[Serial_Apologist]

Have you seen the sequence, S_A?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...lift-back.html

OK fair enough. But that is definitely a fake Ming vase that the photographer is holding!

[Nick Armstrong]

OK fair enough. But that is definitely a fake Ming vase that the photographer is holding!

Some people are never satisfied!