I think we're so used to journalistic BS that we often don't notice
it, perhaps we've developed a journalism filter that automatically
screens out the excess. I read that passage you quote and I didn't
even register the mention of the Dodo and the Tasmanian Tiger!
John Leonard
2008/12/3 Kurtis Lindsay <>:
> Journalists have such a profound ability to produce the most over the top
> statements and anecdotal facts, like the following I found in that article:
> "But this would be the first known loss of a mammal and the most significant
> since the extinction of the Dodo and the Tasmanian Tiger."
> If the journalist who wrote that article did even the smallest amount of
> research he would realize that Dodo's weren't mammals and that the
> extinction of the Dodo preceded that of the Tasmanian Tiger by almost 270
> years.
> Within that time period, hundreds of significant species of mammals (and
> birds) went extinct, including a couple of dozen within Australia like the
> Toolache, Crescent Nail-tailed Wallaby, Pig-footed Bandicoot, Lesser Bilby,
> Paradise Parrot, Norfolk Island Kaka and Grey-headed Blackbird to name a
> few.
>
> Regards,
>
> Kurtis Lindsay
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: [Birding-Aus] white form of Lemuroid Ringtail Possum extinct?
>
> "SCIENTISTS say a white possum native to Queensland's Daintree forest has
> become the first mammal to become extinct due to man-made global warming.
> ...
> Prior to 2005 we were seeing a lemuroid every 45 minutes of spotlighting
> at one main site at Mt Lewis," Professor Williams said.
>
> But, in three years, in more than 20 hours of intensive spotlighting,
> none has been sighted.
> ..."
>
> More at:
> http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,24742053-952,00.html
>
> Andrew
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