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🗓️ 27 April 2017
⏱️ 19 minutes
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0:00.0 | Grimer Girl here. I'm Vinyan Fuggedy and this week is Animal Week. I have a tidbit about |
0:11.4 | why we say you're off your feed when you're having a bad day. It's not about your Facebook |
0:16.2 | feed or your podcast feed. And a meaty middle looking at the amazing ways that animals |
0:22.2 | can and can't communicate. Let's start with the tidbit. |
0:27.4 | Have you ever been off your feed? If so, you probably felt a little off, even sick, |
0:34.2 | definitely not hungry. |
0:37.0 | The phrase off your feed was first used in the 1800s by farmers when their animals refused |
0:42.7 | to eat. A cow who turned away from her hay, for example, would be said to be off her |
0:47.9 | feed. We can also find the phrase in the diaries of Captain RF Scott, the British explorer |
0:55.3 | who in 1911 set out for the South Pole. Scott brought along sled dogs and ponies who |
1:02.1 | proved essential to his campaign. Scott's anguish when the ponies took ill comes through |
1:08.3 | in his writing. Here are a few entries from his diary. |
1:13.2 | Thursday, June 15. Jimmy Pig had an attack of colliec this afternoon. On return to the |
1:19.8 | stable, he was off his feed. This evening, the soldier tells me he has eaten his food, |
1:25.5 | so I hope all will be well again. |
1:28.8 | Friday, July 14. We had a horrible fright and are not yet out of the wood. At noon |
1:35.2 | yesterday, one of the ponies, bones, suddenly went off his feed. Toward midnight, I felt |
1:41.2 | very downcast. It is so very certain that we cannot afford to lose a single pony. |
1:48.4 | On Sunday, July 16. Another slight alarm this morning. The pony China went off his feed |
1:55.0 | at breakfast time and lay down twice. He was up and well again in half an hour, but what |
2:00.2 | on earth is it that's disturbing these poor beasts? |
2:04.9 | Well, the ponies recovered, but perhaps their distress was a harbinger of what was to |
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