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DESCRIPTION:\n\nFilm evenings begin with potluck refreshments and social hour at  6:30 
 pm,\nfollowed by the film at  7:30 pm, followed by a discussion after the 
 film.\n\nTHE LIFE OF BIRDS\nEpisode I:  To Fly or Not to Fly\nby David 
 Attenborough\n\nThis first episode of David Attenborough’s Life of Birds 
 looks at how birds first took to the skies in the wake of the insects.  The 
 film begins in Mexico, where David Attenborough observes bats being 
 outmaneuvered by a red-tailed hawk.  Pterosaurs were the birds’ 
 forerunners, some 150 million years after dragonflies developed the means 
 of flight, but eventually went extinct together with the dinosaurs.  Birds 
 had by then already evolved from early forms like Archaeopteryx, the first 
 creature to possess feathers.  Its ancestry can be traced through reptiles 
 and some current species, such as the flying lizard, possibly show paths 
 this evolution may have taken.\n\nOne of the biggest birds to have ever 
 existed was the terror bird, which proliferated after dinosaurs vanished 
 and stood up to 2.5 metres tall.  By comparison, the ostrich, while not 
 closely related, is the largest and heaviest living bird.  It was probably 
 the evasion of predators that drove most birds into the air, so their 
 flightless cousins evolved because they had few enemies. Accordingly, such 
 species are more likely to be found on islands, and David Attenborough 
 visits New Zealand to observe its great variety, most especially the kiwi.  
 Also depicted is the moa, another huge creature that is now gone.  The 
 takahe is extremely rare, and high in the mountains of New Zealand, David 
 Attenborough discovers one from a population of only 40 pairs.  Finally, 
 another example on the brink of extinction is the kakapo, which at one 
 point numbered only 61 individuals.  A male is heard calling — an 
 immensely amplified deep note that can be heard at great distances from its 
 next.\n\nWheelchair accessible around the corner at  411  28th  
 Street\n\n$5 donations are accepted\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/12/10/18702385.php
SUMMARY:The Life of Birds
LOCATION:Humanist Hall\n390  27th  Street\nuptown Oakland, between Telegraph and 
 Broadway\nhttp://www.HumanistHall.org
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/12/10/18702385.php
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