Transcript (en)

This surely... This surely is one... This surely... Close up! The prunes are truly exquisite. A gauzy clone. Of course, by the 18th century, naturalists realised that birds of paradise did have legs. Even so, by about the 18th century, and so... Very well. But Carl Linnaeus, the great pacifier of the natural world... When he came to allocate a scientific name to this bird, called it... Woohoo! Woohoo! Paradisia apoda. The bird of paradise without legs.