While my guide on the Zomba plateau was excellent, he reminded me of some not so excellent guides I had on previous trips.
A couple of conversations with our guide on Mulanje:
“What kind of flower is that?”
“That’s a wildflower.”
“Do you know what kind of wildflower?”
“A red wildflower. It’s often confused with the orange wildflower.”
“Wow! What kind of bird is that?!”
“An eagle.”
(already knowing I shouldn’t ask) “What kind of eagle?”
“A flying eagle.”
Our guide at Nyika identified a suspicious number of birds as Ogre Buzzard.
"What’s that?"
"Ogre Buzzard."
(completely different looking bird) "Wow, what kind of bird is that?"
"Ogre Buzzard."
After the 4th one Nick and I stopped asking.
3 comments:
Conor,
Ah, people in glass houses should never throw stones! If only you had left out the quite certain assertion that the mongoose is only found in Africa!
Love,
brendan
What if I go and delete that part now? Where else are they? I hope you don't say NY state.
Mongooses are distributed throughout North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and Asia living in a variety of habitats from forests to open woodland, savanna, semi-desert and desert. Chiefly terrestrial, some are aquatic or semi-arboreal.
love,
Mom
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