Comments on: New Cloud-Forest Rat Announced http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/peru-new-rat/ for Bigfoot, Loch Ness, and More Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:27:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: kittenz http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/peru-new-rat/#comment-12514 kittenz Thu, 25 Jan 2007 23:01:06 +0000 http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/peru-new-rat/#comment-12514 Wow a new rat! Maybe it will soon be followed by a new cat! Wow a new rat! Maybe it will soon be followed by a new cat!

]]> By: DWA http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/peru-new-rat/#comment-12513 DWA Thu, 25 Jan 2007 16:56:44 +0000 http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/peru-new-rat/#comment-12513 Total absolute hoax. Look how it just palms the tree and stays there. Look how its tail defies gravity. Yet another confusion of the paranormal with serious science. Look at the moss on the branch. Total hoax moss. Look how it defies gravity. Now we're gonna hear those are antennae, communicating with the Mother Ship that brought the rat. Total hoax ferns too. Sheesh. And no photo. Patterson got a MOVIE. :-D I agree with your comment about the pic orientation, Loren. Yep, the mass media sure have their fingers on the pulse of nature, all right. I'd believe anything they told me. My God, they can't even hang a picture! OK, mystery_man went on this tangent, not me. Blame him. I agree with him that at the current level at which science is looking for the sasquatch (which is about the same level as the resources involved in -- drum roll -- The Search For This Rat), any one of us is as likely to make the discovery as anyone is who's actively looking (when they can break away from their day jobs to look). That there's a Patterson involved in this event is, well, OK, just a coincidence. You'd think HE would have a camera! :0D Total absolute hoax. Look how it just palms the tree and stays there. Look how its tail defies gravity. Yet another confusion of the paranormal with serious science.

Look at the moss on the branch. Total hoax moss. Look how it defies gravity. Now we’re gonna hear those are antennae, communicating with the Mother Ship that brought the rat.

Total hoax ferns too. Sheesh.

And no photo. Patterson got a MOVIE.
:-D
I agree with your comment about the pic orientation, Loren. Yep, the mass media sure have their fingers on the pulse of nature, all right. I’d believe anything they told me. My God, they can’t even hang a picture!

OK, mystery_man went on this tangent, not me. Blame him. I agree with him that at the current level at which science is looking for the sasquatch (which is about the same level as the resources involved in — drum roll — The Search For This Rat), any one of us is as likely to make the discovery as anyone is who’s actively looking (when they can break away from their day jobs to look).

That there’s a Patterson involved in this event is, well, OK, just a coincidence. You’d think HE would have a camera! :0D

]]> By: mystery_man http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/peru-new-rat/#comment-12512 mystery_man Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:37:03 +0000 http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/peru-new-rat/#comment-12512 What, no photo? Only a drawing? Hoax! Seriously, though, very interesting article! It is always interesting to see how many of these new species are accidentally discovered by people that were not actually out looking for them. I always get the strange feeling that Bigfoot, if it is out there, is going to be ultimately discovered by a forestry survey team, or a geologist studying rock formations, or someone out tagging grizzlies, someone other than the people out actually looking for it. What, no photo? Only a drawing? Hoax! Seriously, though, very interesting article! It is always interesting to see how many of these new species are accidentally discovered by people that were not actually out looking for them. I always get the strange feeling that Bigfoot, if it is out there, is going to be ultimately discovered by a forestry survey team, or a geologist studying rock formations, or someone out tagging grizzlies, someone other than the people out actually looking for it.

]]> By: heinselman http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/peru-new-rat/#comment-12511 heinselman Thu, 25 Jan 2007 12:31:27 +0000 http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/peru-new-rat/#comment-12511 The full description write-up is <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.cricyt.edu.ar/mn/indice/pdf/13_2/patterson.pdf" rel="nofollow">located here</a>. With the full citation of: PATTERSON BD and PM VELAZCO. A distinctive new cloud-forest rodent (Hystriocognathi: Echimyidae) from the Manu Biosphere Reserve, Peru in MASTOZOOLOGÍA NEOTROPICAL Volumen 13 Julio -Diciembre 2006 N°2 Craig Heinselman Peterborough, NH The full description write-up is located here.

With the full citation of: PATTERSON BD and PM VELAZCO. A distinctive new cloud-forest rodent (Hystriocognathi: Echimyidae) from the Manu Biosphere Reserve, Peru in MASTOZOOLOGÍA NEOTROPICAL Volumen 13 Julio -Diciembre 2006 N°2

Craig Heinselman
Peterborough, NH

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