Cross Species Communications - Monday 11/27/2006
Student's handwavy recieved vocabulary lists for the language of Spiders last weekend. However, when they get into class, they do not see a spider at the front of the room with Mary. Instead, there is a (rather sheepish looking) swan.
"Good afternoon Children... Due to a rather unfortunate and tragic series of events we do not have a guest speaker to review the language of spiders. Instead, we have a swan to speak to today..."
The swan tries to look innocent.
"Swans are large water birds of the family Anatidae, which also includes geese and ducks. Swans are grouped with the closely related geese in the subfamily Anserinae where they form the tribe Cygnini. Sometimes, they are considered a distinct subfamily, Cygninae. Our... Guest today is a Cygnus olor, which is a common temperate Eurasian species, often semi-domesticated. Descendants of domestic flocks are naturalized in the United States and elsewhere. Not all varieties of swan hold their necks in a curved position and display their folded wings with the feather's splayed, but our guest here and his close relatives do.
Now the language of Anatidae is quite different from that of Passeriformes as we discussed previously in the term. Knowing the language of one can help you communicate with the other as some of you have discovered. Sometimes, there are variations as a result of regional or species variations."
[[ooc: Please wait for OCD. OPEN!!! Students are expected to try and speak Starling to the Swan. FYI - Cygnus olor are mute. Hilarity ensues. Please mod your own game of charades with the Swan who's name is "Princess" (Yes, it's a male swan and yes, he hates his name) if you would like. If you don't my slooooooow play, let me know oocly. I spent 10 hours at Disneyland with Walter!Mun yesterday and I'm mildly braindead this morning.]]
"Good afternoon Children... Due to a rather unfortunate and tragic series of events we do not have a guest speaker to review the language of spiders. Instead, we have a swan to speak to today..."
The swan tries to look innocent.
"Swans are large water birds of the family Anatidae, which also includes geese and ducks. Swans are grouped with the closely related geese in the subfamily Anserinae where they form the tribe Cygnini. Sometimes, they are considered a distinct subfamily, Cygninae. Our... Guest today is a Cygnus olor, which is a common temperate Eurasian species, often semi-domesticated. Descendants of domestic flocks are naturalized in the United States and elsewhere. Not all varieties of swan hold their necks in a curved position and display their folded wings with the feather's splayed, but our guest here and his close relatives do.
Now the language of Anatidae is quite different from that of Passeriformes as we discussed previously in the term. Knowing the language of one can help you communicate with the other as some of you have discovered. Sometimes, there are variations as a result of regional or species variations."
[[ooc: Please wait for OCD. OPEN!!! Students are expected to try and speak Starling to the Swan. FYI - Cygnus olor are mute. Hilarity ensues. Please mod your own game of charades with the Swan who's name is "Princess" (Yes, it's a male swan and yes, he hates his name) if you would like. If you don't my slooooooow play, let me know oocly. I spent 10 hours at Disneyland with Walter!Mun yesterday and I'm mildly braindead this morning.]]