The poor woman was a plant specialist, and hadn't had time to bone up on her cormorants. A little girl asked 'Why are their throats blue?' and she said 'I don't have my cormorant flash cards with me. Does anyone else want to ask me a cormorant question I can't answer?' so I said 'How many eggs do they lay? Are they monogamous? How long do they live?' Good thing she saw the humor in it.