h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Chimps

Or are they pan troglodytes?

It's a bird, isn't it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4t9IrHIc_4

That sparks a memory. I remember seeing some birds living on a cliff-face. With some possible having little caves which they had made their nests. Though, to be honest, I can't remember where, or which birds they were. Not a great memory, admittedly.


Geggs

Oh. Is it pygmy chimps or Bonobos?

I'm fairly sure I haven't got a pair of chimps living in my garden.

They're very sneaky. Can you be certain?

Knowing GT its a bird

Some answers!

17 hygenic - expand on answer a little!
18 hygenic - Quite interesting, although nothing to do with QI. Have a shiny +6 anyway!

19 Mu Beta - Yes!
20 hygenic - So???

21/22 pedro - No!!

23 toybox - No!

24 geggs - Closer!

25 Clive - No

28 bob - Yes!


GT

You are getting close, some of you, but no-one has taken the plunge yet and given me a name!!!

GT

And there are klaxons?

So is it a bird or not

I know what it is, I was just giving someone else a chance, but since nobody else has jumped...

Wren.

Of course Clive!

To catch out the listers!!!!!


GT

Spot on hygenic!!

Troglodites Troglodites is indeed a Wren!!

QI therefore closed!

Will score asap!


GT

Thanks GT.

There's a strange thing about QI, where you feel somehow guilty about getting the answer right.

Ok if my feeler was a Yes then stuff it A wren Its got a double name
And if Troglodytes troglodytes of hygienicdispenser if right the wern is the only bird I know with a repeating name like that

Your comment there Bob prompted me to have a check in my Bird Bible (The Birds of Britain and Europe with North Africa and the Middle East, by Messrs Heinzel, Fitter and Parslow) to see what I could find.

In fact, I found no less than 36 species with repeating Linnean names.

And there is one with a TRIPLE name. Lagofus Lagofus Lagofus! (Willow Grouse)



GT

Scores Folks!!


Post 2 - aWelshOpinion -5

Post 6 - bobstafford +1DGI

Post 12 - hygenicdispenser -5

Post 13 - hygenicdispenser +1DGI

Post 18 - hygenicdispenser +6

Post 20 - hygenicdispenser +1DGI

Post 21 - geggs +1DGI

Post 32 - hygenicdispenser Correct +3


+2 GT

Re repeating Linnaean names - two I like are the corncrake: Crex crex, and the tiny Goldcrest, our smallest bird: Regulus regulus.

Just a few more....

Cygnus Cygnus - Whooper Swan
Gallinago Gallinago - Snipe
Ibis Ibis - Wood Ibis (Not actually an Ibis, but a species of Stork!)
Milvus Milvus - Red Kite
Nycticorax Nycticorax - Night Heron
Pica Pica - Magpie
Puffinus Puffinus - Puffin
Pyrrhula Pyrrhula - Bullfinch
Serinus Serinus - Serin
Tadorna Tadorna - Shelduck
Vanellus Vanellus - Lapwing


And there are more!!



GT