Sociable weaver birds live in the Kalahari Desert of southern Africa. They're called "sociable" because they live in colonies. Also, they're not a bit territorial: they welcome the presence of other birds regardless of species. Sociable weavers thus build popular nests that grow and grow, year after year.
Photographer Dillon Marsh noticed that they made good use of telephone poles that dot across the desert. You can view more of his pictures of them at the link.
Photo Gallery and Zoological Information -via David Thompson
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I don't suppose there's /any/ chance of the old legs being reused somewhere deserving.
The 50,000 pounds raised by fundraising is amazing.
She'll be the ultimate expert on these things with both her legs and her arms. And no it won't be only every 2 years- She'll have to revisit the labs sometimes every week because there'll be tweaking and adjusting and testing if it all works properly needed and she'll feel things and she'll have remarks and suggestions and more improvements needed and she'll need therapy and help for her stumps and for the effects of the enclosures of the stumpcups and so on. And then some times there will be tch's who want to try out new stuff on her because she is young and she can adjust fast enough and she has lots of experience.
The's one person who already has a job for life.
I'd rather have hands than legs though.