Editing Gannet (section)

==Cultural references==
In many parts of the United Kingdom, the term "[[wikt:gannet|gannet]]" is used to refer to people who steadily eat vast quantities of food, especially at public functions.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/gannet|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120708061418/http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/gannet|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 8, 2012|title=Gannet: definition of gannet in Oxford dictionary (British & World English)|date=2014-07-06}}</ref>
[[File:Gannet_feeding_chick_in_main_colony.jpg|thumb|Nesting gannets (''[[Morus serrator]]'') at the [[Cape Kidnappers]] colony in New Zealand]]
[[File:CapeStMarysBirdRock23.jpg|thumb|Northern gannets at Cape St. Mary's]]

Young gannets were historically used as a food source, a tradition still practised in [[Ness, Outer Hebrides|Ness]], Scotland, where they are called "guga".  Like examples of [[Whaling in the Faroe Islands|continued traditional whale harvesting]], the modern-day hunting of gannet chicks results in great controversies as to whether it should continue to be given "exemption from the ordinary protection afforded to sea birds in UK and EU law". The Ness hunt is currently limited to 2,000 chicks per year and dates back at least to the Iron Age. The hunt is considered to be sustainable, since between 1902 and 2003 gannet numbers in Scotland increased dramatically from 30,000 to 180,000.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/scotland-blog/2014/jan/27/scotland-conservation-gugahunt| title=The Hebridean guga hunt is 'ancient and sustainable', not a crime| website=[[TheGuardian.com]]| date= 2014-07-06}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-25527432| title=BBC News – Gaga for guga: Ten things on Scottish island delicacy| work=BBC News| date=2014-07-06}}</ref>

In The Bookshop Sketch, originally from ''[[At Last the 1948 Show]]'' (1967), a customer ([[Marty Feldman]]) asks the bookshop proprietor ([[John Cleese]]) for "the expurgated version" of ''Olsen's Standard Book of British Birds'', "the one without the gannet", because he does not like gannets owing to their "long nasty beaks". Desperate to satisfy the customer, the proprietor tears the page about the gannet out of the book, only for the customer then to refuse to buy it because it is damaged.<ref>[http://www.montypython.net/scripts/bookshop.php "The Bookshop Sketch", ''MontyPython.net'']</ref><ref>Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/eCM2nEBE0RY Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20120303213417/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCM2nEBE0RY&gl=US&hl=en Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCM2nEBE0RY|title=Monty Python – Bookshop Sketch (''Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album)''|last=HarvestGod|date=26 November 2009|via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref> The sketch is reprised in ''[[Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album]]'', where the customer ([[Graham Chapman]]) says he does not like the gannet because "they wet their nests."<ref>{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6f01BQAAQBAJ&dq=contractual+obligation+album+gannet&pg=PA121| title=The Fascination of Birds: From the Albatross to the Yellowthroat| author=William Young| publisher=Dover Publications| year=2014| page=121| isbn=9780486782935}}</ref>

In Series 1, Episode 3, of ''[[The F Word (UK TV series)|The F Word]]'', Gordon Ramsay travels to the northwestern coast of Scotland and is shown how to prepare, cook and eat gannet.<ref>Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/HH4b9IGcXWI Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20210424230934/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HH4b9IGcXWI Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite web| url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HH4b9IGcXWI |title= Gordon Ramsay's The F Word Season 1 Episode 3|website= [[YouTube]]|date= 11 June 2015}}{{cbignore}}</ref> 
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Other references that could be expanded:
* The ‘gannet whale’ is a hypothetical descendant of the gannet seen in the television show ''[[The Future Is Wild]]''.
* The [[Cape gannet]] is featured in the 2008 film ''[[Wild Ocean (film)|Wild Ocean]]''.
* In [[Monty Python]]'s Bookshop sketch, a customer annoys the assistant by asking for, among other ridiculous texts, the expurgated version of ''[[List of fictional books from non-print media#Monty_Python|Olsen's Standard Book of British Birds]]'' with the gannet removed, stating that "they wet their nests".
* A gannet is the first bird viewed with real fear by Nat, the protagonist in [[Daphne du Maurier]]'s short story The Birds.
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