Saturday 26 September 2009

Now Some Good News From The Greater Mekong Area Of South-East Asia,

researchers found amongst other things, the some times bird-eating frog, a technicolour gecko, a tiger-striped pit viper, a new wild banana and, even rarer, two new types of mammal, a report for the wildlife charity WWF says, of course all of these are under threat from from destructive development and climate change, a fanged frog, confined to three remote forest sites in Thailand, waits for its prey in streams, pouncing on insects and other frogs, but researchers have found feathers in the frog’s feces, proving that it eats small birds as well, amazing when we think we have seen it all that the discoveries are among 163 new species found last year in the countries around the Mekong river — Cambodia, Laos, Burma, Thailand, Vietnam and the Yunnan province of China, more than 1,000 new species have been discovered in the area over the past decade, as scientists have begun to explore its remote and unique ecosystems, I wonder what they will find next?

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