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Lowe's Servaline Genet 18

Posted by michael from the dict-serval dept.
Yet another anonymous submitter writes "The BBC have the picture of a new mammalian carnivore caught by a camera trap in Tanzania's Udzungwa Mountains National Park. The metre-long mammal is a member of the mongoose family."
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  • Lowe's? (Score:3, Funny)

    by thefirelane ( 586885 ) on Friday June 21, 2002 @12:58PM (#3744439)
    Ok,

    So I can't be the only one who thought this had something to do with home improvement. Come on, admit it.


    ---Lane

  • Old story (Score:3, Funny)

    by brejc8 ( 223089 ) on Friday June 21, 2002 @01:11PM (#3744509) Homepage Journal
    Reminds me of a story of a British explorer coming back from an expedition with nothing exciting happening.
    So he makes up this fantastic creature he spotted.
    Years later they actualy find a creature which he describes.
    Finaly he admits to making it up on his deathbed.
  • Strange and fascinating. It never ceases to amaze me the wide variety of species still unknown to us here on Earth, even after all of these years.

    Surely if something like this (a metre long!) can go undiscovered for so long, then it would be pure folly to suppose we are all alone in the Universe, though we've seen no signs of other life.

    It's a wonderful world we live in.
    • just because something goes undiscovered for a long time does not mean that parallels can be justified between finding life on earth and in the great beyond. although i do believe that the universe must be teeming w/ life (stastically speaking), i wouldn't necessarily say that our lack of finding all the life on earth supports the idea that there is lots of life elsewhere, but we just suck at finding it...

      -tid242

  • Um.. (Score:2)

    by ivan256 ( 17499 )
    "We now hope to find out more about the animal and thus help ensure its survival."

    How arrogant are we? This thing successfully hides from us and survives just fine for at least 70 years, and now we're going to help it? How? Let's just leave it alone and let it live in peace.

    • Re:Um.. (Score:2, Funny)

      by SN74S181 ( 581549 )
      But.... but.... don't you understand?

      Grants proposals can now be written up. Zoologists can make their career by studying these poor creatures.

      Man as a species can't relax until we have a published report, filed away in libraries across the globe, that detail exactly where and how these creatures exist. Which of course, makes it much easier for somebody to wipe them out someday.

      It's similar to the way we've dug up all the archaeological relics we can find out of places, like the pyramids, where they've been preserved for eons. To put them in metal cabinets in steel and glass museums.

      They call it science.
  • will it take for someone here to post something about the relatedness of this story with the difficulty in catching on camera Bigfoot, the Loch Ness monster, and giant sea creatures of the deep?
  • Big freakin' deal! So they found a reject leopard in the woods. Wake me up when they find a sasquatch.

    But seriously, this "camera trap" idea is really cool. They should start putting those in other remote parts of the world. Heck, they might even be able to find that bloop thing. [slashdot.org]
  • Here's a slightly more informative link than the BBC article:

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