Odin said:
ConstipatedCraprunner said:
It's a Tariser. It's a primate. See?
Damn that's an ugly creature or cute. Damn, I cannot make up my mind.
Yeah. It's a weird little thing. Look at it's wikipedia pick.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_Tarsier
I kind of like it's duality in terms of cute/ugliness. Kotari has a point, Lemurs are generally cuter.
Murdoch said:
ConstipatedCraprunner said:
EDIT: Poaching as pets is prefferable to extinction due to invasive species. In an enviorment, an Australian Desert Bandicoot might be loosing out to a subspecies of Rabbit, but if the species was to become a popular pet, the species would most likely survive.
That statement is so typical of your logic CCR.
II have had fish in the past, but I move about so much that anything less, disposable?, is hard to keep.
Damnit, I already said I was playing devils advocate.
But it's generally the same thing as keeping endangered animals in Zoos. They won't have an easy time with reintroduction, but it's essentailly a way to keep the animal in the gene pool without, you know, the whole messy Jurrasic Park thing.
And I'm not talking about eating them. Pets. Breed then, Have them become widespread in a domestic setting. Kind of like taking in refugees from Bosnia. Not eating them. And if we did plan to eat them, you would have to farm them effectively, and that would lead to the continuation of the species, lest they go the way of the Auroch.
Elissar said:
i'll take two...
I bet i could train em to steal peoples wallets...
no one would suspect a freaky lookin mammal
In certain parts of Japan, you have to hold onto you're wallet, or any kind of shiny object, or gum, as monkeys go STRAIGHT for it. There's actually a monkey jail in India for bad monkeys.
http://www.susannassoapbox.com/animals6.html
Also: there was a case a little while ago of a Raven that stole coins from a vending machine, I think it was. Ravens are INCREDIBLY intellegent, social animals, and there was actually a video of it.
Must be the unsettling eyes...
