Hell someone should have sent them the New Rhacodactylus Book (The Black
Bible) LOL Burke
Anthony Chiarello wrote:
> I thought this episode emphasized a point made in the recent discussion by
> Don Wells and Emmanuel aboiut phelsuma imports. O'Shea is looking for
> geckos on this island, but only finds two despite the fact that he has
> ultra-modern climbing equipment including a crossbow. They seemed to comb
> the forest pretty well, but they couldn't find almost any geckos. Obviously
> there are geckos there because of the imports over the last few years, but
> the question is where were they. Obviously, O'Shea didn't really know where
> to look for the geckos on New Caledonia. Therefore the study was flawed and
> could not hope to garner any sense of what the true gecko populations on the
> island were. The fact that it was put under the guise of trying to get
> protective status made it even worse. TC
>
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