At 15:50 7/10/1999 +1000, you wrote:
>John Leonard wrote:
>
>>... if they've been bad they go to a small oceanic island somewhere in the
>>>doldrums, with no breeding birds at all, and have to study the two
>>species of >beetle found there.
>
>...excuse me, but beetles, particularly ones stuck on isolated islands,
>often show remarkable and interesting adaptations, significantly gigantism
>and/or winglessness/flightlessness...
>
and in an ecological sense,
would they compete with one another?
how would they partition resources?
how would their populations fluctuate?
would any of the (vagrant) birds feed on them?
I think that you would have an eternity of interesting work available there!
Cheers
Pete
Dr Peter Woodall email =
Division of Vet Pathology & Anatomy
School of Veterinary Science & An. Prod. Phone = +61 7 3365 2300
The University of Queensland Fax = +61 7 3365 1355
Brisbane, Qld, Australia 4072 WWW = http://www.uq.edu.au/~anpwooda
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