More than 100 new species discovered in Mekong region

www.pakistantoday.com.pk ^ | 12/21/2017 | Staff

[Red Badger]

Crocodile Lizard

[Red Badger]

[JimRed]

Wait a minute...I thought that our Agent Orange and bombing killed everything in that God-forsaken swamp.

[JimSEA]

Overdevelopment of this beautiful river would be a mistake.

[ClearCase_guy]

“But we have to do more to protect their habitat"

Well, we ended the war in that region in 1975.
No more napalm.
No more dioxin.
No more disruption and violence.

Is that not enough? They seemed to have survived all of that, so perhaps the danger is not all that great.

[donozark]

They are "new" because the Rainbow Herbicides caused them to morph into something else....?

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[JoeFromSidney]

Looks like the critter that crawled all over the ceiling of my house in Bangkok back in 1963.

[TomGuy]

If there are more than 100 new species, the region would hardly seem to be ‘threatened’. More at ‘thriving’.

[DJ Taylor]

And here are a few more memories of Vietnam’s wildlife:

http://www.projectdelta.net/dry_hole.htm

[blueunicorn6]

They have luxury cruises on the Mekong now.

I tried to book a cabin but they didn’t provide an M-60 with the cabin, so I cancelled.

I mean, really, how can they call it a luxury cruise if a complimentary M-60 isn’t provided?

How gauche.

[LouieFisk]

100 new species discovered
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“New” as in “always been there, but nobody paid them any attention before”.

[Red Badger]

Well, now that people aren’t shooting at each other and bombing the living daylights out of the country all the ‘new’ species can come out of hiding!..................

[Red Badger]

They make up for it by providing free complementary sapper satchels...................

[blueunicorn6]

Oh.

OK then.

But I still want a veranda and one of those fancy coffee makers.

And a good buffet. And I’m not talking about some buffet with 30 kinds of macaroni salad. I want shrimp and carved beef.

And a chocolate fountain.

[Red Badger]

How about ‘Rat-On-A-Stick’ and some Pho?......................

[blueunicorn6]

I don’t know what they eat in Pho. My guess is that it’s that South Western cuisine that’s big in the rest of Arizona.

“Rat-On-A-Stick”?

Is that Hillary when she’s riding her broom?

[Delta 21]

Killed all the plants for a while.

[spetznaz]

That’s a very interesting looking lizard. Beautiful, and definitely looks like a tiny crocodile (the back through to the tail).

[DJ Taylor]

"That’s a very interesting looking lizard."

You ain't seen nothing yet. That's the well known Fuc*-You Lizard and is considered a delicacy among the Vietnamese Montagnards. There may be more out there, but those were the only two-penised lizards I ever saw.