We wound up Genovesa Island, Part I with a picture of a baby Booby. If you haven’t seen it already, pop down to the last post and take a look. I’ll wait.
Wasn’t it cute?
I have a funny story about the baby Boobies on Genovesa. Our naturalist guide was always showing us stuff we considered uniquely incredible, and Genovesa was no different. He spotted a baby Booby nested in a bush, and he had us gather around while he showed us how well he had the babies “trained.” If you stand in front of a baby Booby and move your finger up and down, or around in circles, its eyes and head will follow your finger. So at first we thought only Harry could do this. But then my husband tried it, and the baby Booby followed my husband’s finger, too. It was quite comical.
The video is on my Facebook page. I would embed it here, but I tried and the embedding follows the privacy settings on Facebook and also comes out huge. So it would behoove me to behoove you to visit my author page, click “Like” while you’re there, click on Photos, then click on Videos, then click on Baby Booby Being a Bobo. It’s a short, 4-second video, but very cute.
While you’re there, feel free to explore the other Galapagos videos on the page.