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Strange New Carnivore Species Sighted On Borneo
Reuters ^
| 12/5/2005
| Reuters
Posted on 12/05/2005 5:15:46 PM PST by FReepaholic
GENEVA (Reuters) - Environmental researchers are preparing to capture what they call a new, mysterious species of carnivore on Borneo, the first such discovery on the wildlife-rich Indonesian island in over a century.
Swiss-based environmental group WWF said on Monday its researchers photographed the strange animal, which looks like a cross between a cat and a fox, in the dense, central mountainous rainforests of Borneo.
(Excerpt) Read more at today.reuters.com ...
TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: borneo; carnivore; catastrophism; chupacabra; cryptobiology; cryptozoology; ecoping; godsgravesglyphs; species
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...looks like a cross between a cat and a fox...Lessee, that would be a cox....or a fat.
To: tscislaw
phew for a second there I worried they had found crab people
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posted on
12/05/2005 5:17:10 PM PST
by
bobdsmith
To: tscislaw
Just a giant Sumatran rat swept there by the sunami
To: tscislaw
I find neither cats nor foxes "strange", and would find an imagined cross between them (a furry creature with four legs, a tail, sharp teeth and claws, to be not particularly "strange."
I guess they need to sell papers, to hype up what is still an interesting discovery.
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posted on
12/05/2005 5:17:52 PM PST
by
Atlas Sneezed
(Your FRiendly FReeper Patent Attorney)
To: tscislaw
Lessee, that would be a cox....or a fat.Correct. The males of the species would be "cox" and the females would be "fat".
To: tscislaw
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posted on
12/05/2005 5:21:37 PM PST
by
phoenix0468
(http://www.mylocalforum.com -- Go Speak Your Mind.)
To: tscislaw
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posted on
12/05/2005 5:22:55 PM PST
by
boomop1
To: tscislaw
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posted on
12/05/2005 5:24:41 PM PST
by
de Buillion
(Close the bases, and bring the troops home from CA!)
To: tscislaw
You know in this day and age, there really is no excuse for not having a picture of the beast.
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posted on
12/05/2005 5:26:05 PM PST
by
bnelson44
(Proud parent of a tanker!)
To: tscislaw
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posted on
12/05/2005 5:27:03 PM PST
by
Tribune7
To: tscislaw
"Swiss-based environmental group WWF said on Monday its researchers photographed the strange animal, which looks like a cross between a cat and a fox, in the dense, central mountainous rainforests of Borneo....
Pictures of the animal were first taken by WWF researchers in 2003, the photos kept unpublished by the WWF as research continued. The WWF decided to make public the photos with the release of a book about Borneo, to be published on Tuesday."
So they've had pics and been researching for 3 years, but aren't showing the pics until they release their new book?? Yeah it's all about science and nature, not money. Sure.
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posted on
12/05/2005 5:27:07 PM PST
by
visualops
(www.visualops.com)
To: tscislaw
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posted on
12/05/2005 5:28:02 PM PST
by
TC Rider
(The United States Constitution © 1791. All Rights Reserved.)
To: bnelson44
Read the article or my #11.
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posted on
12/05/2005 5:28:34 PM PST
by
visualops
(www.visualops.com)
To: phoenix0468
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posted on
12/05/2005 5:28:40 PM PST
by
Brett66
(Where government advances – and it advances relentlessly – freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
To: TC Rider
Fossa - native to Madagascar
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posted on
12/05/2005 5:29:25 PM PST
by
TC Rider
(The United States Constitution © 1791. All Rights Reserved.)
To: bnelson44
To: tscislaw
Fisher Cat
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posted on
12/05/2005 5:31:53 PM PST
by
SteveMcKing
("No empire collapses because of technical reasons. They collapse because they are unnatural.")
To: visualops
See my post 16 for the pics.
To: nkycincinnatikid
"Everything You Know Is Wrong"
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posted on
12/05/2005 5:33:15 PM PST
by
hang 'em
(Is Devil Worship "one of the World's Great Religions"?)
To: johniegrad
...Correct. The males of the species would be "cox" and the females would be "fat". ...LOL!
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posted on
12/05/2005 5:33:36 PM PST
by
FReepaholic
(Admitted FReepaholic since 1998.)
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