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Strange New Carnivore Species Sighted On Borneo
Reuters ^ | 12/5/2005 | Reuters

Posted on 12/05/2005 5:15:46 PM PST by FReepaholic

GENEVA (Reuters) - Environmental researchers are preparing to capture what they call a new, mysterious species of carnivore on Borneo, the first such discovery on the wildlife-rich Indonesian island in over a century.

Swiss-based environmental group WWF said on Monday its researchers photographed the strange animal, which looks like a cross between a cat and a fox, in the dense, central mountainous rainforests of Borneo.

(Excerpt) Read more at today.reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: borneo; carnivore; catastrophism; chupacabra; cryptobiology; cryptozoology; ecoping; godsgravesglyphs; species
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To: visualops
So they've had pics and been researching for 3 years, but aren't showing the pics until they release their new book?? Yeah it's all about science and nature, not money. Sure.

Maybe they don't want us to bag one.;)

41 posted on 12/05/2005 6:19:44 PM PST by pepperhead (Kennedy's float, Mary Jo's don't!)
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To: SteveMcKing
That's a new one to me. I have never even heard of a fisher cat.

I'll have to google it, learn something about it.
42 posted on 12/05/2005 6:24:07 PM PST by Fatuncle (Iffen I wuzn't iggnert, I woodn't need to be eddiecated.)
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To: pepperhead

lol


43 posted on 12/05/2005 6:25:20 PM PST by visualops (www.visualops.com)
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To: tscislaw
[ Lessee, that would be a cox....or a fat. ]

LoL..

44 posted on 12/05/2005 6:37:58 PM PST by hosepipe (CAUTION: This propaganda is laced with hyperbole..)
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To: Unmarked Package

Ah rats!


45 posted on 12/05/2005 6:40:37 PM PST by Boazo (From the mind of BOAZO)
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To: tscislaw

Well, let's just go out and shoot one and then we'll know what it is.


46 posted on 12/05/2005 6:45:20 PM PST by Kirkwood
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To: Unmarked Package

"Cats and dogs, living together...MASS HYSTERIA!!"


47 posted on 12/05/2005 6:52:09 PM PST by fightnback (I hope the liberals love their children, too.)
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To: visualops

"My first thought was it looks like a lemur."

Exactly my thought - wouldn't it be something if this were a primate?


48 posted on 12/05/2005 7:57:29 PM PST by Bubbatuck ("Hillary Clinton can kiss my ass" - Tim Robbins)
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To: Bubbatuck

I'd be interested to see some better pictures than these though.


49 posted on 12/05/2005 7:58:54 PM PST by visualops (www.visualops.com)
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To: Tribune7

The hair from Russian squirrels is used for lettering and artist's brushes, great stuff. I've got a few still left from the days when I did a lot of lettering.


50 posted on 12/05/2005 8:03:21 PM PST by Sam Cree (absolute reality) - "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." Albert Einstein)
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To: CellPhoneSurfer

It looks like the possums we saw in New Zealand.


51 posted on 12/05/2005 8:05:43 PM PST by Ditter
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To: visualops

oh, of course. So would I. I'm just letting my imagination go. When was the last time a new primate was discovered? Wasn't there a small monkey found somewhere a few years ago?


52 posted on 12/05/2005 8:09:56 PM PST by Bubbatuck ("Hillary Clinton can kiss my ass" - Tim Robbins)
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To: TC Rider

200,000 different living creatures on Mad. 150,000 of them aren't found anywhere else.


53 posted on 12/05/2005 8:14:29 PM PST by 185JHP ( "The thing thou purposest shall come to pass: And over all thy ways the light shall shine.")
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To: tscislaw
Maybe it isn't too late for the new UC Merced to adopt a more original mascot than the "Golden Bobcats"


54 posted on 12/05/2005 8:15:06 PM PST by Plutarch
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To: tscislaw
Researchers hope to confirm the discovery by setting cage traps to catch a live specimen, but warn that Indonesian government plans to clear the rainforest to create the world's largest palm oil plantation may interfere with plans, WWF said.

Fraudulous convienenticus

55 posted on 12/05/2005 10:30:52 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (Islam: a Satanically Transmitted Disease, spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus.)
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To: tscislaw

56 posted on 12/05/2005 10:35:15 PM PST by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: CarolinaGuitarman; Junior; Thatcherite; PatrickHenry; VadeRetro

Quick call Behe! The designer has created a new one!


57 posted on 12/06/2005 5:45:34 AM PST by bobdsmith
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To: tscislaw

58 posted on 12/06/2005 6:10:39 AM PST by Dallas59 (“You love life, while we love death"( Al-Qaeda & Democratic Party)
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To: bobdsmith
I'm going to go out on a limb and say they need some better pics. But I suppose whatever it is will be something previously undescribed in some way.
59 posted on 12/06/2005 7:00:18 AM PST by VadeRetro (Liberalism is a cancer on society. Creationism is a cancer on conservatism.)
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To: tscislaw
Strange New Carnivore Species Sighted On Borneo


60 posted on 12/06/2005 7:01:28 AM PST by Lazamataz (Proudly Lying About My Sign-Up Date Since 1998)
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