Comments on: Roundup of Amazing Finds

By: twblack

twblack — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 18:19:55 +0000

figures see aminal kill aminal sometimes I hope BF never gets found it would be a very bad thing for him.

By: americanjoe

americanjoe — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 04:39:11 +0000

Well, that report by WWF and the pink dophins (called botas in amazonas) just about cements my view of WWF. My wife and I own a farm in para state, about 50 n/w of santarem and not to brag, but I’ve been traving around para and amazonas state since 1997 on amazonas (solimoes), rio negro, japura, mapuera and a whole bunch of other rivers I could name. Anyway…, those pink dophins are everywhere on the tributaries of the amazon river; I’ve had them swimming under my kayak on many occasions when I took it there in 1997 and seen them on about every river I’ve travelled on. For WWF to anounce a “discovery” that they’ve found them on a tributary of the amazon is like saying you “discovered” deer in oregon! What ABSOLUTE rubbish put out by an organization of media hounds. I could tell you another story of the director of WWF in the Republic of Congo (Paul Elkan) this year telling me there were no hippos left in the north of the country and then he argued with that I had seen any on the Ubangi River, until he saw the pictures! This character had been in ROC for 12 years and had never travelled to the ubangi to the area, but was sure there weren’t any there! Another quick antedote: Hugo, a young biologist w/WWF in the ROC said he’d been studying gorillas for 2 years, yet admitted he’d never even seen one yet! The fact of the matter is, that WWF makes up data and then doesn’t do its fieldwork until there is a “discovery” that they feel will make it in a paper somewhere. It’s amazing to me WWF has any credibility at all anymore.

By: sunnydays122

sunnydays122 — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 15:49:05 +0000

I live in Munich, Germany and just thought I’d add a small correction to the story about the bear in the German Alps. Bruno wasn’t killed by the Finnish hunters. He was actually killed by a German hunter, the morning of the first day that hunters were given the go ahead to shoot and kill him. The Finnish bear hunters and their dogs didn’t seem to be able to track him down. It was pretty hot and humid here during the weeks they had the Finnish hunters here and I read in some news stories that the dogs were suffering from the heat and couldn’t track very well or long. Also, the Finnish hunters were just suppose to try to capture the bear and then he was going to be relocated. Unfortunately for “Bruno” that didn’t work out.

By: Loren Coleman

Loren Coleman — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 20:06:34 +0000

I tend to agree with arcanamundi about the lack of “rarity” of the grebe species, as noted, but that’s why I qualified what I was passing along in the news about it. Also, perhaps its “threatened status” only applies to New York State?

Anyway, this is why I quickly followed with my “on an entirely different level of significance” divider with the next story.

This was a “roundup,” after all, and stated as such, with different levels of importance.

By: arcanamundi

arcanamundi — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 13:09:59 +0000

I’m an avid birder, and Pied-billed Grebes are not “rare” anywhere in the United States. They’re common birds that live in ponds and marshes all over the United States (in fact I saw one just this Saturday). This information is available in any birder’s field guide, even those written for children. I have a keen interest in Cryptozoology but I’m afraid that articles like this one will do absolutely no good for its already shaky standing in the scientific community.

By: youcantryreachingme

youcantryreachingme — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 05:01:48 +0000

fitz (1) - I believe the photo is of "another new shark". A practical fishkeeping article lists the species description paper as: Last PR, Chidlow JA and LJV Compagno (2006) - A new wobbegong shark, Orectolobus hutchinsi n. sp. (Orectolobiformes: Orectolobidae) from southwestern Australia. Zootaxa 1239: 35-48. The abstract and part of the introduction (but no illustrations) are available online.

By: Ranatemporaria

Ranatemporaria — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 18:58:15 +0000

Brilliant! This is what i love, even when we’re well on the way to destroying the earth and decimating global bio-diversity the natural world still throws suprises back in our face!

Not such a small world after all!

By: mauka

mauka — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 22:19:03 +0000

As in the Moose story.

By: mauka

mauka — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 22:18:35 +0000

I live near there.

By: sluggo

sluggo — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 17:14:46 +0000

I had never heard of the pink dolphin..how wonderful !

sluggo