Comments on: Africa’s Art Deco Dino: Njago Gunda

By: ignorant_aware

ignorant_aware — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 14:31:20 +0000

Jaded1 is right. There are no tigers in Africa. Plus, tigers (and more or less any predators) would never attack alone a prey like this, bigger and stronger than it is… Except maybe to protect its offspring. This illustration looks as the article sounds: made to fit the Sunday supplements readers dreaming.

Don’t forget that newspapers were the big media of this era, and to keep their readers they were already competing as “fiercely” as they do today.

As Loren suggets, it’s for Sunday. Happy Halloween!

By: dogu4

dogu4 — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 16:42:13 +0000

I see a lot of room for fabulizing when it comes to the Dark Continent, and else where. Never the less, the sad fact is that guns and commercial hunting prededing biologists in every unbroken wilderness on the planet with the possible exception of mainland Antarctica, probably because it was too hard to get to and not enough (none) terrestrial animals of economic interests. Could this have wiped out small vestigal populations in the occasional refugia? I think so and it’s only our current conservative understanding of what the pre-modern human landscape was that obscures the reality.

By: Jaded1

Jaded1 — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 13:03:56 +0000

I like the drawing of the tiger attacking the dinosaur on the article. Forgive me if I’m wrong, but I always thought tigers were residents of Asia and not Africa…

By: CrimsonFox79

CrimsonFox79 — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 19:22:27 +0000

Definitely very interesting. I don’t doubt that there are many strange undiscovered creatures- including the possibility of dinosaurs- in the depths of these jungles.

If we regularly discover new species in areas that are frequently explored, I can only imagine what lurks in these vast, deep jungles that aren’t explored.

/gets excited at the increasing possibility she can have her own pet Dimetrodon someday! haha….. :-p

By: bill green

bill green — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 15:39:54 +0000

hey loren, very interesting new article about africa s art deco dino: njago gunda. thanks bill green