they have been fllying over some of they areas tryng to see where help may be needed. Some of these areas are *extremely* remote and peopled by folks who eat unexpected visitors. There was a reference to this in the link I posted a couple of days ago, the one about some islands being so remote they don't kow yet if there are suvivors. I think this is saying that they are nto seeing large numbers of dead elephants or the like, whereas they *are* seeing human corpses.
Dana On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 12:02:33 -0600, Kevin Graeme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > While I don't dispute that animals have a sensitivity to things like > this, I do wonder at the anecdotal evidence of no dead animals found. > It's one of those things that is easy to inappropriately extrapolate > to mean that no animals died. We don't know that. We just have the > anecdotal comments from people who we don't know. > > And of course, we don't know the full extent of the area or time span > in which they're referring to. Was it a cursory report from a half > hour drive through a 5 acre area? And in the, rather likely, event > that an animal is found dead now after the article is written, the > discovery likely won't make its way to the public consciousness. > > As a slight tangent, how many dead pigeons do you see when walking the > streets of D.C or NY or some other pigeon infested city? I went years > before seeing one and that one was roadkill. From that, I will > extrapolate that pigeons are immortal. Or at least immune from natural > death and they will only die if violently damaged from an external > source. > > -Kevin > > On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 11:40:12 -0500, Larry C. Lyons > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm including Wired Magazine's account of the same phenonmenon. Myself > > I would not be too surprised that give the population density of the > > coast lines around the affected regions, that there were not very many > > wild animals there in the first place. Therrefore little or no animal > > corpses may just be due to there being very few animals where the > > tsunami hit. > > > > larry > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Gold Sponsor - CFHosting.net http://www.cfhosting.net Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:141312 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
