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    News: 'Lost world' found here in SE Asia

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    Pretty amazing...

    High up in Indonesia's mountain rainforests, scientists have discovered an astonishing, mist-shrouded "lost world" that includes animals and plants never seen by man before.

    "It is as close to the Garden of Eden as you are going to find on earth," said Mr Bruce Beehler ....
    read on at http://www.todayonline.com/articles/99831.asp

    More reports if you search Google News...
    Last edited by juggler; 8th Feb 2006 at 12:44.
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    Amazing... golden-mantled tree kangaroo!

    Report and some photos from National Geographic...

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    Photos of Six-wired Bird of Paradise (Parotia berlepschi), Golden-fronted Bowerbird (Amblyornis flavifrons) and undescribed honeyeater from Conservation International...

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    More photos from ABC News...

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    Now that they are disscovered, hope these people are wise enough to preserve these treasures otherwise I prefer this places remain un-discovered.

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    I think they are better discovered or else more forest will be cut down. At least they stand a chance of being conserved or studied.

    Indonesia’s tropical forests—the largest and richest in Asia—are in crisis. These forests are being lost at the alarming rate of over five million acres per year—the equivalent of 300 football fields per hour. As these forests disappear, so does habitat for threatened species, including orangutans, tigers, and rhinos. Much of Indonesia’s forest ....
    From this report http://nature.org/wherewework/asiapa...st_summary.pdf and many others...

    Quixotic: Thanks for the wonderful links!
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    wel its not amazing that these animals still persist... i believe that there are many more out there just not discovered..

    we once found a relatively new mammal skull on the shores and even the profs don kow what the hell it is.

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    Wow... A marsupial in asia... Call me a suaku, bit I didn't know there are marsupials outside Australia...
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    Oh, juggling is hard work, man!...

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    there are diffusion of animal groups across both sides of the wallace line.
    why I don't do garden hybrids and aquarium strains: natural species is a history of Nature, while hybrids are just the whims of Man.
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    In times before the shifting of the continental plates, and when the sea level was much lower I believe New Guinea & Australia form one huge land mass.

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    Yup, but the existance of mammals killed the marsupials of Asia... Just glad that there are some left in New Guinea...
    Read me! :bigsmile: http://justikanz.blogspot.com/

    I'm crypt collecting... Starting cheap, now have Cryptocoryne beckettii, C.beckettii var petchii, C.crispatula var.balansae, C.griffithii(Melted! ), C.nurii, C.parva, C.pygmaea(Melted! ), C.tonkinensis(Melted! ), C.walkeri, C.wendtii 'Brown', C.wendtii 'Green', C.wendtii 'Green Gecko', C.wendtii 'Tropica' and Cryptocoryne x willisii

    Oh, juggling is hard work, man!...

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    yes New Guinea and Australia forms Sahuland. In fact there is no surprise about the marsupial, as New Guinea is east of Wallace. However we do have ancient elephants (and little people) that have crossed the line into Flores.
    why I don't do garden hybrids and aquarium strains: natural species is a history of Nature, while hybrids are just the whims of Man.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Justikanz
    Yup, but the existance of mammals killed the marsupials of Asia... Just glad that there are some left in New Guinea...
    eh? marsupials also mammals hor
    why I don't do garden hybrids and aquarium strains: natural species is a history of Nature, while hybrids are just the whims of Man.
    hexazona · crumenatum · Galleria Botanica

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    Yah, but they warrant a new category on their own liao, right?
    Read me! :bigsmile: http://justikanz.blogspot.com/

    I'm crypt collecting... Starting cheap, now have Cryptocoryne beckettii, C.beckettii var petchii, C.crispatula var.balansae, C.griffithii(Melted! ), C.nurii, C.parva, C.pygmaea(Melted! ), C.tonkinensis(Melted! ), C.walkeri, C.wendtii 'Brown', C.wendtii 'Green', C.wendtii 'Green Gecko', C.wendtii 'Tropica' and Cryptocoryne x willisii

    Oh, juggling is hard work, man!...

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    category?? no lah..i think you mean order..
    yes they are mammals.. order marsupialia
    family includes, Caenolestidae, Didelphidae, Dasyuridae, Notoryctidae, Myrmecobiidae,Peramelidae, Phalangeridae, Vombatidae, and Macropodidae.

    Remembering the teeth structure of each famil was a royal pain in the ***, and this was only one order... talk about 18 other orders!!

    wonder if this will form a new family.. interested to see its teeth structure now...kekeke..
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    Wow! getting too chim for me

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    if you talk design to me i will also karang kaboh..lol..

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    Please!... I am not a biologist! It is already very good I can tell marsupials apart from the other mammals! Haha...
    Read me! :bigsmile: http://justikanz.blogspot.com/

    I'm crypt collecting... Starting cheap, now have Cryptocoryne beckettii, C.beckettii var petchii, C.crispatula var.balansae, C.griffithii(Melted! ), C.nurii, C.parva, C.pygmaea(Melted! ), C.tonkinensis(Melted! ), C.walkeri, C.wendtii 'Brown', C.wendtii 'Green', C.wendtii 'Green Gecko', C.wendtii 'Tropica' and Cryptocoryne x willisii

    Oh, juggling is hard work, man!...

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    har?? never say you were loh... its just additional detail if you wanted to know..kekeke.. i put in layman terms okay..

    family includes rat opossums, true opossums, some native cats/mice e.g. tas devil etc..., marsupial moles, numbats, bandicoots, koalas, wombats, and kangaroos/wallabies

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    Not very long ago, in geological terms and in times when humans were already around, the area bordered by the Nicobar Islands, Palawan Island, Sulawesi and Bali (in essence the whole Malacca Straits and South China Sea) was land. How else would elephants have reached Borneo and tigers Bali, or rasboras Java and stink badgers Palawan?

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