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Discussion in 'Zoo Cafe' started by ThylacineAlive, 30 Oct 2012.

  1. Brum

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    He's back!



    ~Thylo
     
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    Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure he's serious. At least, there's a few people who take him seriously.
     
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    Not exactly nonsense but I didn't have anywhere else to post this and it's my thread so :p

    Finally finished the last of my non-fish IDs for my Southwest US trip in January and I made up some stats I thought were interesting:

    -114 mammal lifers
    • 24 or 25 new carnivores (that SeaWorld seal is still a topic of debate it seems)
    • 38 new ungulates (not counting Cetaceans)
    • 11 new primates
    • 4 new cetaceans
    -304 bird lifers
    • 122 new passerines
    • 20 new ramphastids
    • 3 ratites
    -155 reptile lifers
    • 41 new vipers
    • 31 new turtles
    • 4 new elapids

    Now onto all my zoo visits since then...

    ~Thylo
     
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    We must exterminate all vertebrates.
     
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    You are a vertebrate, so let's start with yourself ;)
     
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    They are actually a sea spider :p
     
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    I think that's just their user-name, not that they actually are a sea spider. But on the internet who really knows?
     
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    Perhaps Chlidonias is a funny tern.
     
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    I'll off myself once I know all the others are gone
     
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    haha
     
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    Interesting story - not sure of how accurate it is but it is being carried by a diverse range of media: for fifty years from the late 1940s to the 1990s the UK government was seriously investigating UFOs under the impression that China and/or Russia had managed to capture one themselves and were using alien technology to build super-weapons.

    Secret UK files show the Brits thought China had a UFO
     
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    It looks like the water starts to just spray all over the place about halfway down depending on the wind. I wonder if that was a deliberate design or an oversight.

    ~Thylo
     
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    That's just how waterfalls work. The higher it is, the less water reaches the bottom.
     
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    I imagine this would be really, really loud and no doubt annoying if you were walking on the street besides the building. It's definitely interesting though.
     
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    Well yes, I just meant I wonder if the designers took that into account when building it. At the end of the video is seems like some water would blow into the street.

    ~Thylo
     
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    This video (amazingly) has clip from my home zoo.
     
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