04-03-2007, 03:37 PM
I just saw this place on TV. That is one place that has some messed up animal life. Many of them are the same as you might find somewhere else in the world. But because their life there is different,they have adapted to it.
I think there are like 14 different kinds of finches(sp?) there. One of them thinks its a wood pecker but its beak is to small for it to dig deep into the branches. So it will snap off small branches and then make a hole in the larger branch. Use the smaller one to dig out bugs and such out of the tree. Its one of very few birds in the world that make,and use tools to do what it needs to do.
They talked about a owl that camps out birds near a cliff. Once they see where the nest is inside the rocks. They fly over there and hide inside the hole where the nest is. When the bird comes back. Its dinner time. They showed a clip of it and it was great. All you saw was the claw come out of the hole and grab the bird.
I could tell from that show on discovery that its not only a great place to visit because of the landscape. But because of the animal life and how different it is to the rest of the world.
I think there are like 14 different kinds of finches(sp?) there. One of them thinks its a wood pecker but its beak is to small for it to dig deep into the branches. So it will snap off small branches and then make a hole in the larger branch. Use the smaller one to dig out bugs and such out of the tree. Its one of very few birds in the world that make,and use tools to do what it needs to do.
They talked about a owl that camps out birds near a cliff. Once they see where the nest is inside the rocks. They fly over there and hide inside the hole where the nest is. When the bird comes back. Its dinner time. They showed a clip of it and it was great. All you saw was the claw come out of the hole and grab the bird.
I could tell from that show on discovery that its not only a great place to visit because of the landscape. But because of the animal life and how different it is to the rest of the world.
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