From: B.Hamilton@irl.cri.nz (Bruce Hamilton) Subject: Regular posters and their adopted animals. Was - Re: Adopt a Tiger! Date: Sat, 22 Apr 1995 18:43:40 GMT Message-ID: In article <3n68qv$4ic$3@mhade.production.compuserve.com> Matthew Boyce <73053.3663@CompuServe.COM> writes: >Global Consciousness is offering you or your gorups a chance to >adopt a Siberian Tiger in the wild. They are being tracked and >researched to help ensure their survival. For more info E-mail! Gosh, I wonder where this could lead :-), I apologise for those "regulars" that I have missed, and all spelling mistakes. I just reviewed the last 100 posts for names of "regulars". Dean Alaska adopts a bison. - quiet, thoughtful, at peace with the earth, and returning from extinction after careful nurturing, but still subject to predation. Lelani Arris adopts an spotted owl. - wise, helpful, and spreads both knowledge and wisdom. Environmental requirements can cause annoyance to others, but still endangered. Jim Cook adopts an rhino - quiet, strong, minds its own business, but has strong opinions, and is coverted by others, endangered. Len Evens adopts a squirrel. - careful, accumulates and stores both sustenance and information, and often cautions others to acquire and store knowledge while available. Mark Friesel adopts a giraffe. - has a long neck to stick out, can blend with the environment, ecological function not yet clearly defined. Claire Gilbert adopts a bee hive. - busy, improves the nectar of others, and quietly adds to the general knowledge pool, despite occasional africanised visitations on hazy days. Tom Gray adopts an albatross. - calm, gentle, nice to observe, requires wind to survive, but continually adds to the information pool, endangered by the folly of others, not predation. B. Alan Guthrie III adopts a monkey. - smart, quick to learn, can easily be distracted by potential rewards. Jay Hanson adopts a parrot - noisy, talks a lot, law of averages suggests some is signal. Gil Hardwick adopts a snail. - consumes all edible material in front of it, carries all its baggage, and leaves a trail of slime. [ free advice Gil, forget the historial baggage, most readers probably don't know ( and don't care ) about your lost $40,000 libel case, even if it was first to involve the sci.* groups. This is a discussion group. If you just attack the messengers, or absent souls, readers will not bother to read your posts, much less respond to them. ] Carl Lydick adopts an male sea-elephant. - large, dangerous, and loud when annoyed. Doesn't matter if it speaks quietly or loudly in acceptable language, it still can sit anywhere. Not a pretty sight, not endangered. Alan Macnow adopts a whale. - possible bad news for the adopted child, but inside Alan there lurks. a gentle heart, endangered. [ Yes Alan, endangered :-) ] John McCarthy adopts a hyena. - can survive by scavenging, even in greenies' trash. Circles wounded greenies continuously looking for the next meal. Not endangered, but probably wouldn't recognise diminishing food supplies anyway. Forrest M. Mims III adopts a frog. - a little lost in the robust sci.environment niche, but a very quick, skilled, learner both in and out of warm, well lit, water. Can croak, and is endangered. Thomas Moore adopts a bush fowl. - scratches a heap of detritus into a useful nest. Fast, not into complex structures. Not endangered. Rich Puchalsky adopts a lion. - strong, smart, skilled, full of leadership and pride, and keen to assert all valid territorial rights. Not endangered, but community-spirited enough to be concerned about lesser beasts. Jim Scanlon adopts a eagle. - keen to find prey, requires lots of light, strong. Circles continuosly, helps when asked, and is endangered by the folly of others. Jan Schloerer adopts an elephant. - wise, community-spirited, excellent memory, endangered. Respected by all others. Steinn Sigurdsson adopts a meerkat. - smart, continuously scans space, organised, likes to build. Not endangered. Larry Smith adopts a snake. - dangerous, aggressive when threatened, not endangered. Michael Tobis adopts a beaver. - hard-working, loves water, builds knowledge for others, requires favourable weather, trees, and stream to happily survive, thus keeps a good eye on the weather. Mike Vandeman adopts a hedgehog. - unlikely to eat Gil's snail. Prickly, and often squashed on roads. Not endangered. Peter Waring adopts an otter. - playful, but serves an essential environmental role. Bruce Hamilton :-) From: B.Hamilton@irl.cri.nz (Bruce Hamilton) Subject: Re: Regular posters and their adopted animals. Was - Re: Adopt a Tiger! Date: Fri, 28 Apr 1995 19:43:15 GMT Message-ID: In article <3nlvnk$lcr@minotaur.nofc.forestry.ca> dhalliwe@nofc.forestry.ca (Dave Halliwell) writes: ..... >>: I apologise for those "regulars" that I have missed, and all spelling >>: mistakes. I just reviewed the last 100 posts for names of "regulars". > I got quite a kick out of it too, in spite of thinking of myself as a >"regular" and having been missed. I haven't been posting much lately, >though. My 15 minutes is gone... :-) Well, I admit I felt guilty missing some of the more prominent posters, so here is Part Two, obtained from the last 250 posts. I will perform appropriate penance by also posting a more serious review. For those that feel inclined to berate me for posting this nonsense in sci.environment, I suggest email - I pay to read your whinges ;-) Thanks to Jan for informing me that hyenas are not always the scavengers typically protrayed, but are a more-respected predator in their own right. John McCarthy will be relieved :-). Thanks for reposting Robert's challenge. During the subsequent discussions my Maori javelin was returned, and I was given an Attack Moa!. In return, showing what an ungrateful swine I really am, I suggested Robert should be given an "environmentally- friendly" thunderbolt - no smoke, no ozone generation, no sound :-). Incidently, after all the recent handwringing, and this thread excepted, there have been several interesting scientific threads in sci.environment. Anyway, to the second, and final, list. Torsten Brinch adopts a polar bear - large, mainly peaceful, animal that lives in harmony with his environment. Excellent co-ordination when fishing. Has ability to sense pollution and obtain sustenance from other's rubbish. Endangered by competition from polluting tip-compactors and hunters. Chris Degnen adopts a camel. - quiet, solid, animal that can successfully utilise most of the adverse environment it lives in. Willingly provides transport for less-capable species. Also endangered by polluting vehicles. Gregory P Dubois-Felsmann adopts an old english sheepdog. - shaggy, large, peaceful, animal that has extremely light-sensitive eyes. Will bark in extreme emergenies, but generally quiet and playful. Hugh Easton adopts a penguin. - a bird that forgot to fly. Is very good at swimming against the tide. Is always well-dressed, no matter how unappetising the food inside. Endangered both by competition, and the folly of others. Simen Gaure adopts a wolf - subject to bad press, wrongly portrayed as an evil predator, but really is more solitary and intelligent than commonly portrayed. Is endangered by predation and competition. Robert Grumbine adopts a leatherback turtle - large, wonderful, self-contained, intelligent creature completely in harmony with the sea. Quietly survives, but willingly provides benign help to lesser species. Unfortunately has to move into an alien environment to lay delicious eggs, and is seriously endangered by predation, careless driftnets, and global climate change. James Hammerton adopts a scottish wildcat - small, intelligent animal with acute senses. Quietly sneaks around controlling undesirable smaller predators. Seldom seen, but highly regarded. Very endangered through the folly of others. Dave Halliwell adopts a moose - large, highly respected, normally-peaceful animal that sustainably harvests a harsh environment. Is usually quiet, but talks common sense when asked. Can utilise less-nutritious plants, converting unused material into exceedingly useful nutrient for other species. Is dangerous when aroused, but is endangered by the greed and habitat destruction of others. Sam McClintock adopts a mongoose. - unusually deceptive, quiet, intelligent animal. Has the ability to kill dangerous snakes. Under-appreciated, and not endangered. Robert Parson adopts a firefly - Chemically bright, provide useful services to others, especially light in the night. Sensibly switches off when there is a lot of noise. Endangered by local habitat changes. Andrew Taylor adopts a kangaroo - bounces around squashing all that he lands on. Playful, somes likes sparring with colleages. Definitely not endangered. Mark Robert Thorston adopts a fruit-eating bat - often uses parts of the spectrum others can not hear to provide signal. Others mistake the audible sounds as signal, when the most useful information is hidden elsewhere. Is often unappreciated, and endangered. Mark O. Wilson adopts a crocodile - likes to lie around basking in the warmth. Has a partially-justified reputation for violent, frenzied attacks. Fears no one. Not endangered. Bruce Hamilton