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Re: "New" large terrestrial animal
Rich Travsky (rtravsky@UWYO.EDU)
1 May 95 23:03:50 MDT
j#d#.moore@canrem.com (J. Moore) writes:
>Jo> > New species are discovered all the time, including "large
>Jo> > terrestrials."
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>Jo> I, among others, would appreciate an example of a "large
>Jo> terrestrial" discovered in the previous two decades. And please, a new
>Jo> species within an established genus doesn't count.
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> [...]
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>As for such an animal, however, there is the example of the
>"pseudo-oryx", discovered (or "discovered";-) in SE Asia in 1992.
>It was of course known to locals, but then what isn't?
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What really bothered me about this part of the thread was the phrase
"all the time". Define "all the time". An example from 1992 is
"once in a while", or "occaisionally", but not all the time...
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