# Ornithologist metamorphoes?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ornithologist-metamorphoes/649467
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports
**Created:** [February 6, 2013, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ornithologist-metamorphoes/649467 "2013-02-06T07:03:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@bahimes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bahimes)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2013, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ornithologist-metamorphoes/649467/1 "2013-02-06T07:03:07Z")
This column:
[http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2370/how-do-caterpillars-have-sex](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2370/how-do-caterpillars-have-sex)
Bolding mine.
In the first paragraph, Cecil introduces “…George Angehr. George is an \*\*ornithologist \*\*with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama…”.
Then follows a very informative and amusing artilce about the sexual hijinks of a species or two of the lower orders.
Finally, Cecil concludes with “I’m telling you, if you want to make a big hit socially, invite an \*\*entomologist \*\*(or George) to your next dinner party.”
So, had George metamorphoesd, or just presented a second qualification?
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### Author:  [@Indian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indian)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2013, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ornithologist-metamorphoes/649467/2 "2013-02-06T08:38:32Z")
Let us ask [Colibri](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php).😉
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### Author:  [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2013, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ornithologist-metamorphoes/649467/3 "2013-02-06T12:34:34Z")
I think the point of the joke was that \*\*either \*\*bird poop (ornithologist) \*\*or \*\*caterpillar sex (entomologist) are bizarre dinner-party conversations.
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### Author:  [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2013, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ornithologist-metamorphoes/649467/4 "2013-02-07T01:53:11Z")
> [@Indian](#):
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> Let us ask [Colibri](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php).😉
He’s George Angehr? I’ve actually heard of him. I mean, elsewhere. As in “he exists in real life.”
Funny that. One of our own made good, at least if you’re interested in the birds of Panama.
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### Author:  [@bahimes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bahimes)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2013, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ornithologist-metamorphoes/649467/5 "2013-02-07T06:37:05Z")
Ah!
So it \*\*wasn’t \*\*in reference to the ornithologist becoming and entomologist…
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### Author:  [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2013, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ornithologist-metamorphoes/649467/6 "2013-02-07T12:53:41Z")
> [@bahimes](#):
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> Ah!
> So it \*\*wasn’t \*\*in reference to the ornithologist becoming and entomologist…
So the little bird builds a cocoon and then a caterpillar emerges…? (I was going to say something about the birds and the bees, but I restrained.)
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### Author:  [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2013, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ornithologist-metamorphoes/649467/7 "2013-02-08T22:01:15Z")
> [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](#):
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> (I was going to say something about the birds and the bees, but I restrained.)
But you still managed to say _something_ about the birds and the bees. 😉
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### Author:  [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2013, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ornithologist-metamorphoes/649467/8 "2013-02-09T03:23:22Z")
> [@Irishman](#):
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> But you still managed to say _something_ about the birds and the bees. 😉
[sub]You been whoooshed[/sub]