Nuptual feeding. The AOU should pull together an Ad Hoc committee to translate it to Latin to make it sound more impressive. Date night: Honey, Lets meet on our tuffet of beach grass and swap each others anchovies that we have been carrying 300 miles in our crop.
shawn@lake park -----Original Message----- >From: Steve Weston <[email protected]> >Sent: Apr 14, 2013 10:11 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: [mou-net] allotropic feeding > > On my last post I used the term "allotropic feeding". I tried to find my >source for this term and could not. I am now pretty certain that I >invented the term. Allopreening is when one bird preens another as part of >pair bonding as in courtship. I was referring to when one bird feeds >another as part of pair bonding. Allotropic has a meaning in the physical >sciences that is not at all applicable to this behavior. I hate it when >someone uses technical words that they do not know. Misuse of vocabulary >such as this is called malapropism from an old English theatrical >character, Mrs. Malaprop. My apologies. >Steve Weston >On Quigley Lake in Eagan, MN >[email protected] > >---- >Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net >Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
