New Species Of Great Cat Found

highwaytohell writes "Scientists have found a new species of leopard on Borneo and Sumatra. The Bornean Clouded Leopard or Neofelis Diardi was originally thought to be similar to the mainland Clouded Leopard. However, Dr Stephen O'Brien, Head of the Laboratory of Genomic Diversity, US National Cancer Institute says, "Genetic research results clearly indicate that the clouded leopards of Borneo should be considered a separate species, DNA tests highlighted around 40 differences between the two species." The news comes just a few weeks after a WWF report showed that scientists had identified at least 52 new species of animals and plants over the past year on Borneo."

finally!

[User 956]

The news comes just a few weeks after a WWF report showed that scientists had identified at least 52 new species of animals and plants over the past year on Borneo.

Ah ha! so that's what the rock is cooking!

A *NEW* great cat???

[zappepcs]

Is this another Apple viral marketing campaign?

Re:finally!

[Anonymous Coward]

the Rock's been gone for almost as long.

Exactly. He's been off, cooking up this report. What did you think he was up to?

*deep breath*

[ravenshrike]

KITTY!!! And now back to you regularly scheduled Slashdot postings.

Re:A *NEW* great cat???

[Whiney Mac Fanboy]

Is this another Apple viral marketing campaign?

"Clouded Leopard" sounds more like Vista if you ask me. Same as a OS X Leopard, but cloudier!

17 of 15?

[lahvak]

"Science: New Species Of Great Cat Found 17 of 15 comments"

What the heck? Is that a new species of math?

clouded leopard?

[dunkelfalke]

i'd rather call it "smoke jaguar".

So it just had the same mesh and texture?

[Moraelin]

So it just had the same mesh and texture, but was a different species? Good to see that God takes the same shortcuts Blizzard does. Can't blame Him, though. I mean, have you seen the kind of polygon count and texture resolution these things have? Oooer. It must cost a mint to model a new one, so some reuse is kinda expected ;)

Makes me wonder why He didn't just write the NPCs name above their head, though. I mean, it kinda defeats the purpose of trying to pass it off as a new species, if noone can tell.

And while I'm at it, how about an exclamation mark above quest-giver's heads, please? Talking to everyone in town works when you have 6 NPCs total in the town, like in old NES RPGs, but not when there's a million of them. Plus, they're starting to look funny at me when I ask them if they have a quest.

Re:Great

[Inverted Intellect]

It is sad that such a graceful animal be wasted on making coats or other fashion items.

It is obvious that its lithe physique has promising potential for exotic cuisine.

Subject incorrect (pendantry) (pedantry)

[kahei]

I appreciate that exact communication is neither possible nor desirable on Slashdot but I do feel that if you are going to be pedantic you should pretty much be able to spell 'pedantry' correctly.

'Pendantry' could mean any of the following:

"The art of creating things to hang on necklaces"
"Like infantry, only with pends instead of infs"
"The act of writing 'Patent Pending' on every silly darn product your company makes"

I bet I have the perfect meaning for it, though:

Pendantry: The the act of publically correcting others without being either accurate or informed.
Pendantic: Having a tendency toward, or resembling, pendantry.

Example 1:

"Yeah, so, we just got back from la belle ville de Marseilles..."
"Hello?? McFly?? MarsielleS has an S on the end, it doesn't rhyme with 'say'. Did you even actually go there?"
"Er, could you possibly be a little less pendantic?"

Example 2:

"People think America was discovered by Christopher Columbus, but it was actually Lief Ericsson in spring 1002."
"What, exactly 1002? Unless you give me a citation, I'm going to have to call that pure pendantry!"