For something a little more fact-based (but still "Fools"-worthy?) my
birder friends and I might prefer the "rediscovery" of the Ivory
Billed Woodpecker in the Arkansas bottomlands a few years back.
On 4/1/17, Allen Aigen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> For those interested in such classic studies (spoofs) of animals that do not
> quite fit our expectations, I recommend: The Snouters--Form and life of the
> Rhinogrades--by Harald Stumpke, 1967, Quondam Curator of the Museum of the
> Darwin Institute of Hy-Yi-Yi, Mairuwili. I got my copy in the early 1970's
> from the American Museum of Natural History but the original is in Geman,
> Bau und Leben der Rhinogradentia, by Gustav Fisher Verlag Stuttgart, 1957.
> This includes 15 plates and 12 text figures. The plates alone are worth
> the cost, if you can find a copy. I heard a lecture based on this book
> while at the University of Illinois in the early 1970's, and a large
> proportion of the students believed it was an actual study of an
> unfortunately now extinct group!
> Allen Aigen
>
> From: Harry Lee <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Saturday, April 1, 2017 7:00 AM
> Subject: [CONCH-L] New gastropod lineage
>
> Dear Listers,
>
> I think this timely bit of intelligence, which was first brought to
> myattention 42 years ago and may have escaped your notice, is worthy
> ofimmediate consideration:
>
> Hebert, C.H., 1975. Flying snails!!! Shell-O-Gram 15(4): 3. April(after
> April 12).<http://www.jaxshells.org/hebert.pdf>
>
> Harry
>
> There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of
> inyour philosophy [Hamlet 1.5.167-8].
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