Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for September 26, 2020

Aerosmith sure lived on the edge before the development of Guitar Hero.

“Polly want a lamb chop”?

Jason? Did your snake bite you?

The Aerosmith fact reminds me of the episode of South Park where the boys were obsessed with Guitar Hero. Randy thought his son wanted to learn to play an actual guitar, but nope, he only wanted to play a video game. Sad, really.

The parrot thing: Whenever there’s an under-used niche in a heavily populatednatural environment, at some point nature will fill it.

The famously diverse finches of the Galapagos are the classic example. There are so many finches and a finite amount of their favored diet of seeds that dozens of kinds have evolved to exploit every available food source. One has developed the ability to peck away at trees to eat the parasites under the bark. (An open ecological niche because there are no woodpeckers there.)

And the vampire finch gets its nourishment mainly from blood. It lights on the head or back of an animal, bites a hole, drinks the blood.

Charles Darwin first inventoried these finches during his famous world-circling voyage of biological discovery. He sketched the many varieties of finch beaks and these were influential in his formulation of the theory of change through natural selection.

As a group, they are still called Darwin’s Finched.

Eh? Never heard of that game.

A Kea eats seals that sings Aerosmith songs.

Save Frog Applause!

Baa!

The Kea parrot can’t build a nest without instructions.

Yea the seal “sings” the song, and every word in is Wuh, Wuh, Wuh,…

Keas are cheeky birds. They will also eat hiking boots and rubber on cars.

But, can they get the Seal to sing “Kissed by a rose?”

Well,,, they do you say, Eat the Rich.

Ikea is a carnivorous furniture company.

Good thing humans are not on the kea’s menu.

I’m picturing this parrot flying off with a sheep in its talons, its like a Monty Python sketch, the parrot is flying back to the fjords with a winter supply of food. How fast can the parrot fly? Is it laden or unladen…

zola: https://youtu.be/aU8ZT5IOqd0

Politicians world wide feed on live sheep.

Take care and gesundheit.

Was the Kea descended from T. Rex?

The New Zealand KIA is the only car used to run over sheep eating parrots.

Smith Brothers earned more from their cough drops than Aerosmith from all their albums and video games.

In the wee hours, after the scientists left for home, Zola sneaks out the back entrance and hops in a van taking her to The Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. They got the band back together.

Me: “Polly want a cracker?” Polly: “Polly wants your soul!”

All interesting tidbits today!

I’ve seen a kea up close. Had no idea it was so dangerous.

I’m sure Aerosmith earned that money in a very short amount of time, too.

On this day in history on September 26 1901 Leon Czolgosz, who murdered President William McKinley, is sentenced to death.

But Zola absolutely refuses to sing the Beatles “I Am the Walrus”…

Aerosmith literally had a video game in 1994: “Revolution X”