http://cryptochick.blogspot.com/2011/08/gorblimey-hello-mrs-jones-hows-your.html
Saturday, August 27, 2011
RICHARD FREEMAN WRITES: "Captive thylacines at dog shows"...
Species depart the biota, not with a bang but a whimper. The Thylacine, Tasmanian Tiger or Marsupial Wolf, Thylacinus cynocephalus, is one of a handful of species, joining the Quagga, Equus quagga, and the Passenger Pigeon, Ectopistes migratorius, where that whimper has a precise date. The Thylacine became extinct on 7 September, 1936, when the last known specimen died in captivity in the Beaumaris Zoo, Hobart (Smith 1981).
Records, both of employees and the visiting public to Australian zoological gardens displaying
the Thylacine (Adelaide, Hobart, Launceston, Melbourne and Sydney zoos) represent an important and largely untapped data source of additional knowledge upon the behaviour of this species.
Read on...
Records, both of employees and the visiting public to Australian zoological gardens displaying
the Thylacine (Adelaide, Hobart, Launceston, Melbourne and Sydney zoos) represent an important and largely untapped data source of additional knowledge upon the behaviour of this species.
Read on...
SOME ODDS AND SODS COURTESY OF CHAD ARMENT
Info on a giant fossil cheetah:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44151536/ns/technology_and_science-science/#.TlRlhV3EhFw
The orange Alaskan mystery substance was spores, not eggs:
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/18/alaskan-mystery-substance-is-fungal-spores-not-eggs-noaa-says/
Ripley's is putting in a museum in Baltimore's Inner Harbor, and wants to put a Chessie model on the facade:
http://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/news/2011/08/18/ripleys-pitches-3-d-chessie.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44151536/ns/technology_and_science-science/#.TlRlhV3EhFw
The orange Alaskan mystery substance was spores, not eggs:
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/18/alaskan-mystery-substance-is-fungal-spores-not-eggs-noaa-says/
Ripley's is putting in a museum in Baltimore's Inner Harbor, and wants to put a Chessie model on the facade:
http://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/news/2011/08/18/ripleys-pitches-3-d-chessie.html
PRUDENCE UPDATE
Poor Pru is still feeling sorry for herself. I don't think it is the pain (remember what her ancestors were bred for - they are allegedly pretty impervious to pain) so much as the fact that she has to sleep in the kitchen rather than upstairs with us, and that she is not allowed to jump on and off the sofa or armchairs, and is confined to the floor. Poor dear, she thinks she is being punished for something.
YESTERDAY'S NEWS TODAY
Oliver is away, but he asked me to remind you that on this day in 1929 the actor Windsor Davis was born, he was in Terrahawks, Carry On films and a Doctor Who story during the 60s.
Dinosaur-Era Mammal Possibly "Mother" of All Humanity
Twenty rare Siamese crocodiles hatch in zoo
Map highlights world’s most threatened coral reefs
Mosquitoes 'disappearing' in some parts of Africa
Amphibian disease research yields weapon
Female seals drawn to deadly ship propellers
Darwin's Butterflies? Spectacular Species Radiation in the Caribbean Studied With 'DNA Barcoding'
Seems appropriate:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBU-MxydbWQ
Dinosaur-Era Mammal Possibly "Mother" of All Humanity
Twenty rare Siamese crocodiles hatch in zoo
Map highlights world’s most threatened coral reefs
Mosquitoes 'disappearing' in some parts of Africa
Amphibian disease research yields weapon
Female seals drawn to deadly ship propellers
Darwin's Butterflies? Spectacular Species Radiation in the Caribbean Studied With 'DNA Barcoding'
Seems appropriate:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBU-MxydbWQ
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