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- From: andrewt@watson.ibm.com (Andrew Taylor)
- Subject: Re: Hooded Pitohui
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- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.161355.85356@watson.ibm.com>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 16:13:55 GMT
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- In article <Bxtvo1.E3A@zoo.toronto.edu> rising@zoo.toronto.edu (Jim Rising) writes:
- >Believe it or not, Andrew's not having you on this time.
-
- I seem to have a credibility problem. One friend refused to believe my account
- of the Hooded Pituohi until I showed him a newspaper clipping. John apparently
- hasn't forgotten an incident 5 years ago. I was filling in the long drive back
- from birding Cape May with stories of Australia's array of dangerous fauna.
-
- After accounts of venomous snakes, spiders, fish, molluscs jellyfish,
- octopuses etc. (all deadly) I described drop bears, a long-clawed carnivorous
- equivalent of the koala which drops out of a tree on to the back of its prey
- and slashes its throat. Unfortunately John started telling others about
- drop bears until he described them to a group at hawkwatch which unfortunately
- included a mammal specialist from the Museum of Natural History.
-
- Its disappointing that Pitohuis aren't found in Australia. Fortunately Torres
- Strait is a temporary feature and they will rejoin Australia's avifauna
- eventually. Now if we could do something about Gila Monsters.
-
- Andrew "de-gauss that pigeon" Taylor
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