how do you know he wasn't a xanthistic spectacled bear? He was very pale.
You will believe a shark can roar: Zoological malpractice in Hollywood.
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Hallo Chlidonias
I don't think Michael Bond would have used the word xanthistic in his books, but wouldn't the Brown family have noticed that Paddington didn't correspond to a Peruvian bear? It shows a supreme lack of interest, but I have spent quite a bit of time stating that tarntulas are wolf spiders and not 'bird-eating spiders.
On a different tack, horns and other defences were added to the bodies of iguanas and other lizards in 'The Lost World'.
I don't think Michael Bond would have used the word xanthistic in his books, but wouldn't the Brown family have noticed that Paddington didn't correspond to a Peruvian bear? It shows a supreme lack of interest, but I have spent quite a bit of time stating that tarntulas are wolf spiders and not 'bird-eating spiders.
On a different tack, horns and other defences were added to the bodies of iguanas and other lizards in 'The Lost World'.
there are two possibilities. One is that Paddington didn't originate in Peru, simply that his family lived there. He may have been from a family of immigrant isabelline brown bears lured there by the promise of gold and riches in the Andean mountains. This would explain his propensity for speaking English rather than Spanish.
The other more likely one is that the Brown family were only aware of the appearance of spectacled bears from the Tintin episode "Prisoners Of The Sun" in which Captain Haddock was surprised in a cave by a brown-coloured bear. This was first published in 1946 in "Tintin Magazine" and the Brown family first met Paddington around 1958. The Brown family may well have simply assumed that spectacled bears looked the way Herge depicted the one in Tintin and not thought anything odd of it.
That of course leads to the further possibility that in fact there is a race of brown-coloured spectacled bears in the Andes, of which only two specimens have been recorded as yet (the Bond one and the Herge one).
I just want to put on record my highest esteem for this first-rate piece of literary ursid taxonomy.
And okapis in the middle of the savanna.
Disney's "Tarzan" had ring-tailed lemurs in the middle of the African rain forest.
Gets me every time.
Honestly, I hold zoos accountable for those particular errors.
I once saw a documentary - I am pretty sure it was Discovery Channel (before they started the Animal Planet network). It was showing a leopard in Africa hunting down a baby warthog. The brief chase scene started and ended with the same leopard and warthog near the same watering hole. But the middle of the chase scene - when they supposedly cut to a different angle for two seconds - was a jaguar chasing a peccary!
This of course is a factual documentary - not a fictitious movie - so I found the error very troubling. I wrote to Discovery and pointed out the error and they told me they would contact the producers and correct it. But several months later I happened to see the same show and the jaguar clip was still there.
Now I have found a very simple solution and am no longer troubled in the least by televison shows like this - I do not own a television
. (I also rarely go to the movies - I have been inside a movie theatre twice in the last 8 or so years). And, to relate back to the starting post on this thread, people are often shocked when they hear I have never seen any of the Jaws movies.
This of course is a factual documentary - not a fictitious movie - so I found the error very troubling. I wrote to Discovery and pointed out the error and they told me they would contact the producers and correct it. But several months later I happened to see the same show and the jaguar clip was still there.
Now I have found a very simple solution and am no longer troubled in the least by televison shows like this - I do not own a television
. (I also rarely go to the movies - I have been inside a movie theatre twice in the last 8 or so years). And, to relate back to the starting post on this thread, people are often shocked when they hear I have never seen any of the Jaws movies.
hahaha the shopping-trolley shark-suit will stop them! Classic.
nanoboy
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Aussie cinema at its best! I can't wait for it to be released so that I will NOT go to see it.
A blurb for the movie said they were tiger sharks, but that looks like a great white to me....
it's a bit hard to understand with the actor's speech impediment, but at 1.24 he says "there's a twelve foot great white shark in here"nanoboy said:
Pootle
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zooboy28
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Aussie cinema at its best! I can't wait for it to be released so that I will NOT go to see it.
A blurb for the movie said they were tiger sharks, but that looks like a great white to me....
If this gets released in NZ I would go see it, why wouldn't you? It looks awesome.
I do, however, think a more appropriate title would have been "Shark in a Supermarket".
My personal interpretation was always that Louie was the pet of some rich landowner from the British Raj, who had escaped/been released but having grown up among humans had become humanised to the point of wanting to "be like us".
Aussie cinema at its best! I can't wait for it to be released so that I will NOT go to see it.
A blurb for the movie said they were tiger sharks, but that looks like a great white to me....
I'll go and see it, could be quite entertaining. Like "Rogue".
Hix
or "Mall Sharks"