posted 13 May 2005 09:24 AM
Goodness. Weren't we just reading yesterday, or the day before, that a new sub-species of fox has been found, and in this neck of the woods, too (Viet Nam?)?
posted 13 May 2005 09:42 AM
Clap for the rat, man... He gonna rate your record high!
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posted 13 May 2005 05:29 PM
I emailed the CBC this morning lambasting them for calling this a "discovery."
It's not a discovery, folks. The local people already had a word for this critter, and in fact, they were selling them at the local market.
Calling it a discovery is like saying no one knew about it until it was classified by western scientific nomenclature. What rot.
posted 13 May 2005 05:35 PM
True, though the fact that it belongs to a new family might qualify as a discovery in its own right.
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posted 13 May 2005 06:34 PM
It looks adorable!
Then again, I'm about the only person I know that thinks that rats look really cuddley.
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posted 13 May 2005 09:19 AM
