Today I learned on Nostr: TIL Blue-footed Boobies (and other Boobie species) are named from the Spanish word ...

TIL Blue-footed Boobies (and other Boobie species) are named from the Spanish word “bobo.” The term means “stupid,” which is how early European colonists may have characterized these clumsy and unwary birds when they saw them on land—their least graceful environment.

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue-footed_booby
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