It seems like all the great apes are in serious peril these days because of the intrusive habits of man. It's pretty sad if you ask me... Orangutans Face Extinction in 20 Years LONDON (Reuters) - Orangutans face extinction in as little as 20 years because of logging and poaching, the conservation group WWF-UK said Monday. "Borneo and Sumatra, home to the world's last orangutans, have lost a staggering 91 percent of their populations over the past 100 years," WWF-UK said in a statement. "There are now fewer than 30,000 orangutans left and it is likely that they will become extinct in the wild in as little as 20 years' time if this decline continues," it added. Almost 80 percent of the orangutans' forest habitat in Malaysia and Indonesia has been destroyed by commercial logging and clearance for oil-palm plantations. Hunting and poaching for bush meat and the pet trade are adding to the decline in numbers of the great ape. The WWF is working to extend sanctuaries where logging and hunting are banned, but 60 percent of orangutans currently live outside the protection of the reserves. "It will be a long-term effort that will cost millions but we must act now to save orangutans, which are not only a critical part of the food chain but an icon in the region," Francis Sullivan, WWF-UK's Director of Conservation told Reuters. http://news.yahoo.com/?tmpl=story&cid=570&e=3&u=/nm/environment_orangutans_dc
Speaking of extinct KingCheetah, did you know that archaeologists just uncovered the first ever willy mammoth fossil on Texas soil about 2 weeks ago?
If I was a female rapper I could be Queen La Cheetha... I hadn't heard about Mammoth fossils in Texas very interesting - but I have to ask what is a Willy Mammoth?
I don't know it wasn't in the dictionary. Oh, by the way, you shouldn't mess with contributing member.
Maybe he meant Mammoth Willy? We're all passengers on the runaway train that is the earth, heading towards ten billion served simultaneously. How will we reach the balance between space for humans and space for fresh water sources to regenerate and soil for tilling? Interesting times, although it won't play out for a couple of generations.
No, the Mammoth Willy was uncovered the day I was born. And what on God's green earth are you talking about Woofer?
The WWF is working to extend sanctuaries where logging and hunting are banned, but 60 percent of orangutans currently live outside the protection of the reserves. This must be due to King Kong Bundy's influence.
It has saddened me every day that I log onto the BBS that: 1. no poster claimed the moniker "Dr. Zaius," and 2. I did not choose the moniker "Dr. Zaius."
Not that this has anything to do with monkeys, monkey's uncles, or orangutans, but here is a follow up on Willy Nelson Mammoth... Mammoth Skull Discovered Near Gulf Coast Archeologists, Students Discover 38,000-Year-Old Woolly Mammoth Skull Near Texas Gulf Coast CLUTE, Texas Jan. 13 — The skull of a woolly mammoth unearthed here has been tentatively dated to an age of 38,000 years, paleontologists say. The remains were unearthed in a sand pit by Texas A&M University students and the Brazosport Archaeological Society. No mammoths had earlier been discovered on the Texas Gulf Coast, Brian Miles, paleontology curator at the Brazosport Museum of Natural Science, told The Brazosport Facts in Tuesday's online edition. Digging that began Friday had by the weekend produced about 40 strands of clumped hair, presumably from the mammoth, said lead researcher Robson Bonnichsen, director of the Center for the Study of the First Americans at Texas A&M. "It's highly unusual for this to be preserved," he told the Houston Chronicle. Such samples would allow scientists to collect DNA from a Columbian mammoth for the first time, said Bonnichsen, and determine how closely it is related to the woolly mammoth. Other DNA samples were collected from the woolly, and some Texas A&M researchers have even talked of cloning the mammal. A backhoe operator, Joe Kimble, said he was working in the pit in November 2003 when he came across a tusk, said Kenny Vernor, president of Vernor Material and Equipment Co. Kimble, 46, ran into a single tusk, but the scientific community had little interest in the discovery, said Vernor. But he found a pair of tusks a short distance away about a week later. Researchers were down the next day, Vernor said. Miles said part of the skull and miscellaneous bones were also found in addition to the tusks. The Columbian mammoth is a warmer climate cousin of the woolly mammoth. The sand pit's owners have allowed archaeologists to cordon off an area of interest with a 50-by-50-foot fence, where they will dig for at least three or four more weekends, said Bonnichsen. Researchers plan to place the bones or at least a cast of the bones in the nearby Brazosport Museum of Natural Science. http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20040113_957.html
Where's the "who cares about some monkey thing nobody has heard of before if it gets in the way of progress..." response?
The derailing continues.... How would they be able to clone it, with nothing to birth it? I say clone it if you can. That would be sweet! Trying to draw attention away from my derailing...... Clone some Orangutans, too.
I am going to extend the benefit of the doubt to Roc Paint here and state my belief that you each like your favorite primates for different reasons.
