Oh, duh, lori. I forgot about the monk seals. And me an environmental specialist. Heh.
They are, of course, hugely endangered.
Where's the praising and extolling of my virtues? Where's the love?
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Discussion of the Mutant Enemy series, Firefly, the ensuing movie Serenity, and other projects in that universe. Like the other show threads, anything broadcast in the US is fine; spoilers are verboten and will be deleted if found.
Consuela - Dec 30, 2004 11:12:59 am PST #43 of 10001
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-t - Dec 30, 2004 11:16:53 am PST #44 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Monk seals only. That fact could come in handy.
Excellent.
lori - Dec 30, 2004 11:17:46 am PST #45 of 10001
Well, with the not really hanging out in the forests and all, they aren't usually what think of when they talk about mammals.
WildDemon Cornelius - Dec 30, 2004 11:23:34 am PST #46 of 10001
Take your fingers off it, don't you dare touch it, you know it don't belong to you, to you...
Hmm...interesting website (as usual, it has little if anything to do with Firefly, but never mind) about the Hawaiian animals.
Poor Albatrosses...a friend of mine once tried to start a debate over who would win in a fight between a Mongoose and an Albatross...doesn't seem quite so hilarious now. Why would anyone introduce Mongooses? (not Mongeese) Was there a snake problem, or did two guys have a contest to see who could bring in the most random animal?
One more question: Why is it that ninjas are always funny/cool? -t just randomly mentioned ninjas, and I laughed. Why?
Betsy HP - Dec 30, 2004 11:25:26 am PST #47 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Did the Polynesians not have rats?
Zenkitty - Dec 30, 2004 11:47:14 am PST #48 of 10001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I wonder if, on the terraformed worlds of the Firefly 'verse, there are Earth creatures that no one would have wanted to bring, but got there anyway, like rats, or cockroaches.
I'm sad that I missed the thread change.
lori - Dec 30, 2004 11:52:28 am PST #49 of 10001
Topic!Cindy - Dec 30, 2004 11:53:58 am PST #50 of 10001
What is even happening?
Yeah, this is the creepy part. It's not caused by anything that is alive. It's caused by a new kind of protein that corrupts the other proteins. Like that new kind of water in the Vonnegut story that freezes at room temperature, and also transfoms ordinary water into its own form on contact, so if you touch your tongue to it you freeze solid.Prions or something, right Rick? My cousin's m-i-l died of probable vCJD (I don't think they allowed an autopsy, which is the only way to prove it--by looking at the brain) a few years ago, and I googled a lot, at the time. They didn't know what hit her at first. They thought she had a stroke, and then nothing fit the expected prognosis. It was heartbreaking, because they knew she was dying and in so many ways was already gone.
-t - Dec 30, 2004 11:56:34 am PST #51 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Tthere's more than one mammal native to Hawaii? I'll never be able to remember two. Oh well.
I might be able to remember that Hawaiian bats exist, though, 'cuz that's just cool.
lori - Dec 30, 2004 12:12:00 pm PST #52 of 10001
This USGS paper pretty much covers all the bases on Hawaii's critters.