I saw a passenger pigeon in my American chestnut tree this morning. :-)
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From: Conchologists List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of steve rosenthal
Sent: Saturday, April 01, 2017 10:51 AM
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Subject: Re: [CONCH-L] New gastropod lineage--new mammalian lineage
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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