"killed. The police arrive at the scene and arrest a Harpo Marx-like cuckoo, an Edward G. Robinson-inspired sparrow (possibly an homage to the original story) and a Stepin Fetchit-based blackbird as suspects. The next day a trial is held over the identity of Cock Robin's assassin, with an owl serving as the judge and a parrot as the prosecutor, interrogating the suspects and showing Cock Robin's body as evidence. The blackbird confesses he hadn't done, seen, or known anything about it. The sparrow refuses to say anything. The cuckoo doesn't know either, but continually points to the judge and the"
"mysteries, to cartoons. Cock Robin ""Who Killed Cock Robin"" is an English nursery rhyme, which has been much used as a murder archetype in world culture. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 494. The earliest record of the rhyme is in ""Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book"", published c. 1744, which noted only the first four verses. The extended version given below was not printed until c. 1770. The rhyme has often been reprinted with illustrations, as suitable reading material for small children. The rhyme also has an alternative ending, in which the sparrow who killed cock robin"
"Cock Robin ""Who Killed Cock Robin"" is an English nursery rhyme, which has been much used as a murder archetype in world culture. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 494. The earliest record of the rhyme is in ""Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book"", published c. 1744, which noted only the first four verses. The extended version given below was not printed until c. 1770. The rhyme has often been reprinted with illustrations, as suitable reading material for small children. The rhyme also has an alternative ending, in which the sparrow who killed cock robin is hanged for"
"Who Killed Cock Robin? (1935 film) Who Killed Cock Robin is a Silly Symphonies short released on June 26, 1935 by United Artists, produced by Walt Disney and directed by David Hand. It is based on the nursery rhyme ""Who Killed Cock Robin?"". An extract from the cartoon was featured the following year in Alfred Hitchcock's ""Sabotage"". While Cock Robin (caricatured after Bing Crosby) serenades the Mae West-esque Jenny Wren, an unseen assailant shoots an arrow into Cock Robin's heart and he falls to the ground, giving the other birds in the tree the impression he has been shot and"
"Who Killed Cock Robin? (Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)) ""Who Killed Cock Robin?"" is the fourteenth episode of the ITC British television series ""Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)"", starring Mike Pratt, Kenneth Cope and Annette Andre. The episode was first broadcast on December 21, 1969 on ITV. In this murder mystery, Jeff Randall is hired by a large estate manager to investigate a series of bird shootings in the manor aviary. While keeping guard of the valuable birds. Each member of the family of the manor is killed off gradually narrowing down the suspects leaving Jeff with the surprising culprit. Randall is"
"says he heard her screaming in her room; she fearfully says she saw nothing and did not scream. Drukker admits to being in Dillard's house before the murder. Another neighbor is John Pardee, a chess enthusiast, who seems overly interested in the case. A taunting typewritten note is found, signed ""the Bishop"". It alludes to the nursery rhyme ""Cock Robin"". That was Robin's nickname, and another visitor at the house that day was named Sperling—German for ""Sparrow""—but he proves to have a solid alibi. Neither Drukker's nor Bishop's typewriter matches the note, and Dillard does not have one. Later a"
"is able to speak to Mrs. Harper face to face and resolves to ask her the next day if she is his real mother. One day, Robin heads down to the pond to feed the ducks, alone. All the ducks follow Robin, who is holding bread. Robin falls into the pond and drowns. At Robin's grave, Georgie decides to plant his rosebush on Robin's grave, not in the garden. Mrs. Harper and Georgie start to connect over his decision and they head back toward the school. Extra Characters: ""Social Worker Woman"" - Friend of Judge O' Neill The Lottery Rose"
"parrot and even himself, showing he is indeed ""cuckoo"". Everyone is astounded that no one knows who murdered Cock Robin. At that moment, Jenny Wren arrives and demands that she see justice done for her Cock Robin. Eventually, the judge declares that all three suspects be hanged as they don't know which of them is guilty. Just then, an arrow strikes the judge's hat, and its owner, Cock Robin's supposed killer, is revealed to be Cupid. He reveals that Robin isn't dead at all; he simply fell for Jenny Wren and is currently unconscious, the arrow he was shot with"
"a rock and be trapped in a deep pit where he is unable to find a way out. While there, he realizes that Christopher Robin is still with him in his heart, even when they are not together, just as Christopher had promised. After Piglet, Rabbit, Tigger and Eeyore enter the Eye, they are found by Christopher Robin who has been searching for them as well. He reveals that he was only at ""school"", and the roars of the Skullasaurus they have been plagued by are actually the noises of Pooh's tummy rumbling. After Christopher Robin rescues Pooh from the"
"is in his armpit. Jenny revives Robin and they kiss, to the excitement of the jury. Who Killed Cock Robin? was released on the Walt Disney Treasures DVD Silly Symphonies. Who Killed Cock Robin? (1935 film) Who Killed Cock Robin is a Silly Symphonies short released on June 26, 1935 by United Artists, produced by Walt Disney and directed by David Hand. It is based on the nursery rhyme ""Who Killed Cock Robin?"". An extract from the cartoon was featured the following year in Alfred Hitchcock's ""Sabotage"". While Cock Robin (caricatured after Bing Crosby) serenades the Mae West-esque Jenny Wren,"
"rabbit warren. A wide variety of vertebrates construct or use burrows in many different types of substrate and can range widely in complexity. Mammals are perhaps most well known for burrowing, especially Insectivora like the voracious mole, and rodents like the prolific gopher, great gerbil and groundhog. The rabbit, a member of the family Lagomorpha, is a well-known burrower. There are estimates that a single groundhog burrow can occupy a full cubic metre, displacing 320 kilograms of dirt. Great gerbils live in family groups in extensive burrows, which can be seen on satellite images. Even the unoccupied burrows can remain"
"the main ground cover. Along the short path leading from the forest floor down to the cave entrance, visitors will also find serviceberry, false Solomon seal, squaw currant, Oregon grape, and small willow trees. Animals common in the forest around the cave include golden-mantled ground squirrels, chipmunks, western gray squirrels, porcupines, weasels, pine martens, and mule deer. In 1991, park personnel observed a full-grown cougar run out of the cave entrance area, but that was a single sighting. There is also a wide range of resident and migratory bird species common to the area. Small resident birds include wrens, robins,"
"which have fallen into the sinkhole since the last ice age lie over deep at the bottom of the pit. Small mammals whose remains have been found in the cave include pikas, jackrabbits, cottontail rabbits, marmots, chipmunks, ""Peromyscus"" mice, woodrats, ""Microtus"" voles, and collared lemmings. Larger mammals represented in the cave include ""Canis"" species, red foxes, short-faced bears, weasels, martens, wolverines, American cheetahs, American lions, ""Equus"" species, ""Camelops"", deer, antilocaprids, bison, bighorn sheep, and mammoths. Remains of the American cheetah are particularly abundant in the cave. The entrance to the pit was covered with a safety grill by the Bureau"
"and Jenny Wren. Just as the happy pair are on the point of being united, the Cuckoo attempts to kiss Jenny Wren, and the Sparrow, pretending to shoot Cuckoo as a punishment for his madness, kills Cock Robin. A court-martial is held, and, on the evidence of ""the fly who saw him die"", and ""the fish who caught his blood"", the Sparrow and his companions are found guilty. As summary justice is about to be wreaked on them, their friend Satana changes them into three bears.<br><br> The next scene takes place in the forest, where Cock Robin is to be"
"to dig right through a cliff and into a lake hundreds of feet down. Sam ignores Bugs' warning (thus clearing the rabbit's conscience), digs through the cliff and plummets into the lake. Soon afterwards, Bugs goes downhill and proceeds to dig when Sam shows up again. Sam accuses Bugs of trying to get the gold for himself (talk about calling the kettle black!); he grabs Bugs' shovel, hypocritically complaining ""That's what I get for trusting a rabbit"". As the thief digs ever deeper, it turns out he's in a loaded dump truck driven by Bugs! The rabbit drives his truck"
"Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia. In 2013 the Hermitage loaned the collection to Houghton for display following the original William Kent hanging plan, recently discovered at Houghton. The nursery rhyme, ""Who Killed Cock Robin?"", may allude to the fall of Walpole, who carried the popular nickname ""Cock Robin"". (Contemporaries satirised the Walpole regime as the ""Robinocracy"" or as the ""Robinarchy""). In the United States, the towns of Walpole, Massachusetts (founded in 1724), and Orford, New Hampshire (incorporated in 1761), take their respective names from Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford. Walpole Street in Wolverhampton is named after Sir Robert"
"which scatter the material with kicking motions. While most burrows are dug from the outside, some warrens feature holes dug from the inside which act as emergency exits when escaping from predators below ground. These holes usually descend perpendicularly to 3–4 feet, and their mouths lack the bare earth characteristic of burrow entrances. While kittens sleep in chambers lined with grass and fur, adults sleep on the bare earth, likely in order to prevent damp, with warmth being secured by huddling. Although both sexes dig, does do so more skillfully, and for longer periods. The European rabbit is usually a"
"near the entrance to the cave. The area near the cave entrance is dominated by Western juniper and Ponderosa pine with big sagebrush, bitterbrush, mountain mahogany, rabbitbrush, and a veriety of desert grasses as the main ground cover. Common grasses in this area include Idaho fescue, bunch grass, and bluebunch wheatgrass. Animals common in the forest around the cave include mule deer, pronghorn, coyotes, bobcats, cougar, and American black bear. Smaller mammals include American badgers, porcupines, golden-mantled ground squirrels, and chipmunks. There is also a wide range of bird species common to the Derrick Cave area. Small bird species include"
"Killed Cock Robin"". This crime takes place at the home of an elderly physicist with a beautiful young ward and a private archery range. District Attorney Markham finds the circumstances so unusual that he asks his friend Philo Vance to advise upon the psychological aspects of the crime. Further murders connected with the physicist's family and neighbours are accompanied with similar extracts from Mother Goose, such as the case of Johnny Sprigg, ""who was shot through the middle of his wig, wig, wig."" Midway through the book, an elderly woman confesses to the crimes, but this possibility is discounted by"
"stork, Stanley crane, cattle egret, dromedary camel, wolf guenon, DeBrazza's monkey, klipspringer, Madagascar ground boa, Madagascar tree boa, ostrich, African grooved frog, Lady Ross turaco, Aldabra tortoise, African wild dog, African pancake tortoise, Sudanese plated lizard, and African Slender-snouted Crocodile. Tasmanian devil, koala, echidna, Matschie's tree kangaroo, saltwater crocodile, lorikeet, carpet python, princess of wale's parakeet, wompoo fruit dove, emu, red kangaroo, laughing kookaburra, budgerigar, Micronesian kingfisher, palm cockatoo, Major Mitchell's cockatoo. Asian elephant, Bactrian camel, snow leopard, Malayan tiger, red panda, king cobra, reticulated python, Indian python, wrinkled hornbill, pygmy slow loris, slow loris, orangutan, siamang, Komodo dragon, Chinese"
"giraffe, duiker, shrew, anteater, wombat, ground squirrel, capybara, sugar glider, red panda, tenrec, naked mole rat, dusky titi monkey, rhesus macaque, lemur catta, bush baby, capuchin, tamarin, red colobus, marmoset. Divisions: Social Mammals, Marine Mammals, Who In The What Now, and Fossil Mammals Animals who did not advance to round two: titi monkey, dingo, meerkat, beaver, marmot, bush dog, hyrax, bandicoot, fisher, saki, Sunda colugo, pangolin, echidna, olinguito, mara, ""A. afarensis"", ""A. sediba"", dire wolf, aurochs, giant giraffid, megalania, rhino wombat, giant baboon, Godzilla platypus, sea otter, beluga whale, harbor seal, river dolphin, hooded seal, ringed seal, narwhal, manatee. Divisions:"
"many failed attempts for what would replace Eeyore's tail, Kanga suggests that they use a scarf, which unravels. The next day, Pooh goes to visit Christopher Robin and he finds a note that says ""Gon Out Bizy Back Soon"" (a misspelling of ""Gone Out Busy Back Soon""). Pooh is unable to read the note, so he asks for Owl's help. Owl's poor reading comprehension skills lead Pooh and his friends to believe that Christopher Robin has been abducted by a ruthless and mischievous monster they call the ""Backson"". Rabbit plans to trap the Backson in a pit, which they think"
"situated on the highest ground, while Eeyore continues house hunting for Owl. Roo finds Piglet's bottle, and Owl flies off to tell Piglet that help is on the way. Owl manages to reach Piglet and Pooh, but before he can inform them of the impending rescue (and telling them another one of his boring stories) a waterfall threatens to carry them all over the side. Pooh switches places with Piglet as they take the plunge, and luckily for them the waterfall washes them right into Christopher Robin's yard. Thinking that Pooh had rescued Piglet, Christopher Robin decides to throw a"
"Cock a doodle doo ""Cock a doodle doo"" is a popular English language nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 17770. The most common modern version is: <poem>Cock a doodle do! My dame has lost her shoe, My master's lost his fiddlestick, And knows not what to do.</poem> The first two lines were used in a murder pamphlet in England, 1606, which seems to suggest that children sang those lines, or very similar ones, to mock the cockerel's (rooster in US) ""crow"". The first full version recorded was in ""Mother Goose's Melody"", published in London around"
"as a parrot, because it matched the intended tone of the poem. Poe said the raven is meant to symbolize """"Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance"""". He was also inspired by Grip, the raven in """" by Charles Dickens. One scene in particular bears a resemblance to ""The Raven"": at the end of the fifth chapter of Dickens's novel, Grip makes a noise and someone says, ""What was that – him tapping at the door?"" The response is, ""'Tis someone knocking softly at the shutter.""<ref name=""Staford Cremains / Ravens""></ref> Dickens's raven could speak many words and had many comic turns, including the"
"returned to the courthouse. Some speculated that the body in the coffin was a substitute, with the real lizard being held in a private collection. Looney Tunes character, Michigan J. Frog was inspired by Ol' Rip's story. Ol' Rip the Horned Toad Ol' Rip (died January 19, 1929) was a horned lizard (commonly referred to as a ""horned toad"" or ""horny toad"") whose supposed 31-year hibernation as an entombed animal is believed by some and doubted by others. His name is a reference to the fictional character Rip Van Winkle. In 1897, a horned lizard was placed in a cornerstone"
"Lewis Carroll was readying ""Alice's Adventures Under Ground"" for publication he replaced a parody he had made of a negro minstrel song with a parody of Howitt's poem. ""The Mock Turtle's Song"", in Lewis Carroll's ""Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"", is a parody of Howitt's poem; it mimics the meter and rhyme scheme, and parodies the first line, but not the subject matter, of the original. The Spider and the Fly (poem) The Spider and the Fly is a poem by Mary Howitt (1799–1888), published in 1828. The first line of the poem is ""'Will you walk into my parlour?' said"
"dug a hole beneath the threshold of his owner's house. As soon as dark clouds appeared, the rooster would go into the hole, and his spirit would fly out from his body into the clouds to fight with ""ale"". One day the owner killed the rooster, and immediately went mad. Another dragon rooster, with two combs, would fall to the ground and lie as if dead during thunderstorms. The Aesculapian snake (""smuk"" in Serbian and ""smok"" in Bulgarian) was regarded as a very beneficial animal. People avoided disturbing it in any way. The Aesculapian snake which inhabited a crop field"
"Zebra Great Green Macaw Green Iguana Green-winged Macaw Grivet Hyacinth Macaw Jacob Sheep Lady Amherst's Pheasant Laughing Kookaburra Leopard Tortoise Llama Mandarin Duck Mandrill Military Macaw Moluccan Cockatoo North American Porcupine Ostrich Painted Turtle Patagonian Cavy Patas Monkey Peafowl Prairie Dog Pygmy Goat Red-eared Slider Red Kangaroo Red River Hog Reeve's Muntjac Reticulated Giraffe Ring-tailed Lemur Scarlet Macaw Schmidt's Guenon Scimitar-horned Oryx Siamang Sika Deer South American Coati Spotted Hyena Squirrel Monkey Sulcata Tortoise Temminck's Tragopan Two-toed Sloth Vicuna Vietnamese Pot-bellied Pig Water Buffalo Western Crowned Pigeon White-faced Capuchin White-handed Gibbon White Rhinoceros Wild Turkey Wolf's Guenon Wood Turtle Yak"
"Barbary dove (""Streptopelia risoria""), Barbary partridge (""Alectoris barbara""), barn swallow (""Hirundo rustica""), black crake (""Amaurornis flavirostra""), blackstart (""Cercomela melanura""), blue rock thrush (""Monticola solitarius""), brown-necked raven (""Corvus ruficollis""), Cape teal (""Anas capensis""), common bulbul (""Pycnonotus barbatus""), common chiffchaff (""Phylloscopus collybita""), common kestrel (""Falco tinnunculus""), common moorhen (""Gallinula chloropus""), common quail (""Coturnix coturnix""), cream-colored courser (""Cursorius cursor""), crested lark (""Galerida cristata""), crowned sandgrouse (""Pterocles coronatus""), desert lark (""Ammomanes deserti""), desert sparrow (""Passer simplex""), desert wheatear (""Oenanthe deserti""), eastern olivaceous warbler (""Iduna pallida""), Egyptian nightjar (""Caprimulgus aegyptius""), Egyptian vulture (""Neophron percnopterus""), Eurasian stone-curlew (""Burhinus oedicnemus""), fan-tailed raven (""Corvus rhipidurus""), fulvous babbler (""Turdoides"
"(""Phoenicopterus rubber""), ferruginous duck (""Aythya nyroca""), osprey (""Pandion haliaetus""), Verreaux's eagle (""Aquila verreauxii""), peregrine falcon (""Falco peregrinus""), common crane (""Grus grus""), rock pigeon (""Columba livia""). Amphibians and reptiles: The amphibians and reptiles listed below have been recorded in the Aammiq region either by A Rocha personnel or people working with A Rocha from 1996 onwards. As with the other species lists, the Aammiq region is here taken to include not just the valley floor wetlands, which are very rich in reptiles, but also the adjacent farmlands and the rocky slopes of Mount Barouk. Herpetology, the study of reptiles and amphibians,"
"the cave while attempting to use it as a source of drinking water. Dating of the subfossil remains indicated that their deposition occurred mainly between 15,000 and 40,000 years ago. As well as representing many living animals, examples of extinct species recovered from the cave include the birds ""Centropus colossus"" and ""Orthonyx hypsilophus"", and the mammals ""Thylacinus cynocephalus"", ""Thylacoleo carnifex"", ""Propleopus oscillans"", ""Macropus titan"", ""Protemnodon anak"", and the sthenurine kangaroos ""Procoptodon gilli"", ""Procoptodon maddocki"" and ""Simosthenurus occidentalis"". Fossils were first collected from the cave in 1964 followed by a further collection in 1968, a number of expeditions which were organised"
"broad-billed hummingbird (""Cynanthus latirostris""), the black-chinned hummingbird (""Archilochus alexandri""), Costa's hummingbird (""Calypte costae""), Gambel's quail (""Callipepla gambelii""), the common raven (""Corvus corax""), the Gila woodpecker (""Melanerpes uropygialis""), the gilded flicker (""Colaptes chrysoides""), the cactus wren (""Campylorhynchus brunneicapillus""), and the rock wren (""Salpinctes obsoletus""). Four types of doves call the Southwest home: the white-winged dove (""Zenaida asiatica""), the mourning dove (""Zenaida macroura""), the common ground dove (""Columbina passerina""), and the Inca dove (""Columbina inca""). Mammal species include the bobcat, coyote, black bear, black-tailed jackrabbit, desert cottontail, desert bighorn sheep, mule deer, white-tailed deer, gray fox, mountain lion, river otter, long-tailed weasel,"