Trivia and other useless but interesting items

**RANDLOVER** · 2nd August 2019, 05:14 PM

Operation Noah

As seen on Australian Story, The ABC's Kirsten Drysdale is the granddaughter of Operation Noah's Rupert Fothergill, which rescued thousands of animals when the Zambezi River was dammed, in then Rhodesia (actually originally Southern Rhodesia) now Zimbabwe.

"A few buffalos had been removed before the starvation crisis reached its peak. Rupert's team...removed five adults. Then they ran out of drugs for the darting equipment and there was no response from Salisbury as to when new supplies would be arriving. So Rupert went after the buffalos with the Land Rover. In the gloom of the dust pall, amidst the snorting, lumbering, desperate animals, they looked for targets. As the younger animals slowed and dropped behind, the men would race from the vehicle and, bare handed, through force of numbers and in desperation at the plight of the game, wrestle the buffalo to the ground. Then the creature would be trussed up and carried to the raft. More often than not the bellows of the calves would bring angry mothers charging back and a free-for-all would ensue." From Keith Meadows' book "Rupert Fothergill Bridging A Conservation Era" showing a Land Rover was involved.

DiscoMick · 4th August 2019, 10:02 AM

There is a plant named after Land Rovers. San Watson, in Land Rover Owner International, June 2019, p. 87, says:

"Scrophularia Landroveri is a hardy mountain plant that grows in the high valleys of Afghanistan. It was discovered in 1962 by scientists Per Wendelbo and Ian Hedge from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh, who named it in honour of their tough old Series II 109. It carried them throughout their expedition to the rugged mountains of Iran and Afghanistan, and without which they said they couldn't have done their research. Above and Beyond indeed. "

I wonder if any plants are named after Toyotas.

**Eevo** · 4th August 2019, 01:14 PM

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

I wonder if any plants are named after Toyotas.

im sure they would be a weed

DiscoMick · 4th August 2019, 02:30 PM

And here it is, thanks to Google. It's the same colour as their Landy. I'm terribly excited.

Scrophularia landroveri – botanical whimsy – Botanics Stories

**V8Ian** · 4th August 2019, 05:58 PM

Toyotijuana, does it get any more bogan?

**Gav 110** · 4th August 2019, 07:06 PM

Originally Posted by V8Ian

Toyotijuana, does it get any more bogan?

Trivia and other useless but interesting items

Maybe even toyoshroom
Another fungus, they just seem to pop
up everywhere
And the people who drive them like to hallucinate about them

**NavyDiver** · 5th August 2019, 01:19 PM

Almost all planets revolve anticlockwise. All eight planets in the Solar System orbit the Sun in the direction of the Sun's rotation, which is counterclockwise when viewed from above the Sun's north pole. Six of the planets also rotate about their axis in this same direction.

The exceptions – the planets with retrograde rotation – are Venus and Uranus..

**4bee** · 5th August 2019, 03:44 PM

are Venus and Uranus..

Not my anus Diver, it goes where & when I want it to go.

**Fifth Columnist** · 5th August 2019, 05:55 PM

A different viewpoint NavyDiver would say you are 100% wrong..........

DiscoMick · 7th August 2019, 05:26 AM

There is life on the moon - and 96 bags of human waste.

Tardigrades may have survived spacecraft crashing on moon

Tardigrades may have survived spacecraft crashing on moon | Science | The Guardian

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