Thursday, December 10, 2009

Tiger vs. skinny bird with silly haircut



I took this odd clip at the Lino Park: you've heard of alien vs predator, shark vs bear, Brown vs. Cameron - well here's tiger versus what would normally be a small snack, one would think. Of course tigers are not native to Africa, so it could be that the bird is just too bird-brained to be instinctively terrified. Or perhaps they've become good friends through long incarceration in adjacent pens and they were just chatting through the wire like they do every day.

Can anyone name the bird species?

2 comments:

wetaman said...

Hello
Surprised to see the tiger,
I think the bird is a
West African Crowned Crane
(Balearica pavonina)
lifted from anothert site - research!

Marsian said...

Thanks Wetaman/GRH, exactly right! You can actually take the tiger for a walk (I'm not kidding), we'll do it if you visit.