So my partner of 20 years, a genuinely brilliant autodidact and also fairly odd, once found a CD in a used bin called, "The Amazing Sounds of Threatened Birds". Intrigued and slightly disturbed, he bought it for a dollar and brought it home to play.

There, it Finally occurred to him that the birds were, in fact, Endangered, and Not being menaced with tiny knives, or aggressive audits or something.

That made more sense, really.