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Island Life and endemism

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Subject: Island Life and endemism
From: "Philip A. Veerman" <>
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 12:31:21 +1100
Not only that but did you notice that they said that "Japanese Encephalitis is now regarded as ENDEMIC on Torres Straight Islands". As I described before, thereby using the term in the form of "regularly found among". This does not include any concept of exclusivity. They did not use ENDEMIC to mean restricted to or native to. So my point: users of the word ENDEMIC should define which of three very different, though correct meanings, they are using.
 
Mind you, some TV documentary makers don't know the meaning of "decimated" either and think it means something like devastated, instead of a rather trivial action of killing of 10%.
 
Philip
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From: Laurie&Leanne Knight <>
To: Birding Aus <>
Date: Sunday, 3 February 2002 22:59
Subject: [BIRDING-AUS] Island Life

Tonight's episode of Island Life [ABC 7.30] focussed on quarantine / disease
control efforts in the Torres Strait.  In particular, there was an interesting
segment where researchers were trying without success to cannon net night herons
[to acquire blood samples to check for disease transmission].

While the cannon netting segment was a bit abbreviated on the show, it at least
covered some aspects of the practice.  Interesting to note the difficulties in
netting night herons on a beach [as opposed to other waders and shore birds] -
they had to set up during the night and they couldn't "drive" the night herons
into the target area.  Have night herons been subjected to much cannon netting
in the past?

Regards, Laurie.

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