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I've been slacking on the eco-ping of late but heres a good one.
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 ...
Looks like a kinkajou to me. They're calling this a new viverid, but it looks like it would fill a niche usually filled by the procynids (raccoons, red pandas, coatis, etc.)
FReepmail me to be added or removed to the ECO-PING list!
I've been slacking on the eco-ping of late but heres a good one.
Kind of like that ivory billed woodpecker. That one has netted them over 10 Million. But despite all of the technology today there are no definative pictures.
It is amazing to me how many new creatures are suddenly discovered in areas where planned development awaits environmental review.
Have those where I live. Not friendly at all.
" I've been slacking on the eco-ping of late but heres a good one."
Yet another species found. A friend who now lives on the Island of Borneo in the Malaysian country of Sawarak mentioned this new find in a email. He had nothing to add to what this article says.
Did the National Enquirer buy out Reuters??
Those are definately pictures of a Fossa
YUM YUM EAT EM UP!!!!
It's obviously a Canadian Lynx, and the National Forest Service has a DNA sample to prove it!
LOL
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That looks like a wolverine!
Ahhhh! Someone else is as corrupt as me!
:)
That's what I thought when I saw the pics. With such a vast distance between the islands of Indonesian Borneo and Madagascar, that would mean it was likely that someone brought it/them to Borneo and it/they were released or escaped. Either that, or it was an interesting migration (maybe hitched a ride on a transport ship?)
Now that they're there, they are an "endangered species" and must be afforded protection, right?
Now that they're there, they are an "endangered species" and must be afforded protection, right?
It wouldn't surprise me to find out that the environmentalist group that is taking the pictures put them there to begin with. Or to sound even more cynical, are actually taking the pictures on Madagascar and saying they are from Borneo.
We'll see if they are actually able to capture one as they say they want to do.
and the hybrid one would be a "fat cox," I guess.
I laugh every time some environmentalist kid comes to my door with their clip board, ready to sign me up to save the world. I always think of stories like this when they tell me we're paving over the world.
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