Mistakes in Natural History programmes

[foxdropper 17,092]

3 hours ago, comanche said:

I guess the clue is in the Latin name Capreolus which means goat-like. And a baby goat is a.......

Capreolus only applies to roe mate .Capreolus Capreolus .

[Stavross 13,711]

6 hours ago, foxdropper said:

What annoys me is the use of fox calls in other programmes at times of year when they are silent

(Lol) that drives me mad, my missus watches some sh*te on the idiot box, the one that springs to mind is Midsummer Murders, when I point it out she just tells me to shut up, 

[comanche 2,799]

 

14 hours ago, foxdropper said:

Capreolus only applies to roe mate .Capreolus Capreolus .

Edited March 21, 2023 by comanche

[wildman 374]

Don't watch any of them anymore, just for armchair  naturalists ,rather  be out there  doing  it for real

[foxdropper 17,092]

31 minutes ago, wildman said:

Don't watch any of them anymore, just for armchair  naturalists ,rather  be out there  doing  it for real

Agree mate but I do enjoy watching it when I’m not out there .

[cragman 2,631]

I turn the sound down, it’s bad enough listening to the shite commentary but the dramatic music really pisses me off

[wildman 374]

When they give  a animal  some sweet  name ,watch it get preyed  on ,escape,mate have young ,it's  like  watching  a crap  soap opera 

[paulus 26]

Complained times over the years. A factual programme should at the very least be factual, something that most can never achieve, The standard reply to any complaint is to blame a researcher. easy get out, 

[Greyman 25,154]

11 minutes ago, paulus said:

Complained times over the years. A factual programme should at the very least be factual, something that most can never achieve, The standard reply to any complaint is to blame a researcher. easy get out, 

I send complaints off to the beeb regularly, just get back standard reply’s though I tend to complain about things like Jimmy saville and there bias reporting rather that a kid being called a fawn or a fox screaming out of season, they just want our money not our opinions it seems

[THE STIFFMEISTER 14,553]

On 20/03/2023 at 15:24, comanche said:

I guess the clue is in the Latin name Capreolus which means goat-like. And a baby goat is a.......

Good knowledge that mate 

[foxdropper 17,092]

1 hour ago, Greyman said:

I send complaints off to the beeb regularly, just get back standard reply’s though I tend to complain about things like Jimmy saville and there bias reporting rather that a kid being called a fawn or a fox screaming out of season, they just want our money not our opinions it seems

What was there reply about Saville Paul .

[eastcoast 3,727]

When they refer to the young of animals as "babies" and herbivores as vegetarians.

[comanche 2,799]

On 20/03/2023 at 16:11, Neal said:

That's a good point. I was wondering if it was because of when the species were introduced to the U.K. i.e in the same way that ox, deer, sheep etc are Anglo Saxon because they farmed them (I think) whereas beef, venison and mutton are french because the Normans said, "Thanks very much; I'll eat that!"

Actually you may be not far out.

Neither might Sir David . Fawn

The word fawn comes from Old French. ( l'm no expert ;  just happen to have l a couple of really old dictionaries) which comes from Latin . Seemingly originally a  term   for foetal , newborn or    suckling offspring (Hence the term "fawning" for sucking up to  someone), it could apply to many species but stayed in common use   as  the generic word for an  immature deer  . Hunting terminology might use fawn more specifically   but it seemingly is valid to use it in a wider sense.

It would be a very archaic but not incorrect use to apply it to a human baby!  

Thinking along those lines ; the word "kid" seems to have taken over in that department.

Which brings us back to the beginning!

Bloody words ,it's  like entering a circular minefield!

 

 

Edited March 24, 2023 by comanche

[Neal 1,784]

That's the kind of response I like. Colin Dexter would have been impressed.