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Falconry: Fed Up and Looking Haggard
From: Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
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The practice of hunting wild birds with trained birds — for fun — is called falconry. Though it came into its own almost 1,000 years ago in England...

Bought by 'The Sea'


  • Added: Feb 03, 2017
  • Length: 31:40
  • Purchases: 1
Coccyx: Please Don't Sit on the Cuckoo
From: Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
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Coccyx is a small triangle-shaped bone at the base of the spinal column in humans and other apes. Representing a vestigial tail and most commonly c...

  • Added: Jan 21, 2017
  • Length: 05:37
Inauguration: On a Wing and a Prayer
From: Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
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The word “inauguration" takes us all the way back to the politics of ancient Rome and the birds behind the words inauguration, inaugural, auspiciou...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2017
  • Length: 22:14