Only occasionally patrick, canned that is, not a rat.
Roger Collett
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From: "Patrick McManus" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 2:37 PM
Subject: Re: Rats
> Can you clarify here is Roger a rat? Is he endangered is he canned?do
> Laotians want to eat him ?P
> Patrat
>
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> From: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and
> poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jill Jones
> Sent: 16 May 2005 13:13
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> Subject: Re: Rats
>
> Is this for real? The kha-nyou rat? The stone-dwelling enigmatic mouse?
> I checked my calendar and it's *not April 1st but just wondering.
>
> Doubting Thomasina of Ruby Street
>
>
> On Monday, May 16, 2005, at 08:31 PM, Roger Collett wrote:
>
>> Food for thought?
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>> from the NY Times
>>
>> May 16, 2005
>> The Name of the Rat
>> It is a touchy use of the word "discovered" when a rodent that
>> Laotians routinely eat is
>> purchased at a market and then declared to be a new species. Just
>> think of the debate over
>> saying America was discovered by a European who stumbled over it
>> 12,000 years after humans first
>> settled there. But until field researchers found the animal on sale in
>> Thakhet, and lab analysts
>> identified it as a separate species, the foot-long critter that
>> Laotians call kha-nyou, or rock
>> rat, didn't have a scientific name.
>>
>> Now, newly inducted into the noble order of Rodentia as Laonastes
>> aenigmamus ("stone-dwelling
>> enigmatic mouse"), kha-nyou finally has an official slot in the
>> ancient kingdom of Animalia. Dr.
>> Robert Timmins of the Wildlife Conservation Society, who was involved
>> in the identification of
>> the new species, is worried that his discovery might not be around
>> much longer to enjoy its new
>> status. In fact, scientists have yet to see a living kha-nyou. And
>> there can't be too many
>> around, given the fact that it took so long for scientists to spot
>> one, that they live only
>> among limestone boulders in Laos, and that the locals find them tasty.
>> Two other species
>> identified in this century, the bumblebee bat and the Chinese river
>> dolphin, already rank among
>> the dozen most endangered species in the world.
>>
>> It is extraordinary, as Dr. Timmins noted, that an animal that took
>> off on its own evolutionary
>> course millions of years ago could remain unknown to science for so
>> long, and it is troubling
>> that it might have vanished before we even got acquainted. We wish the
>> kha-nyou a long and happy
>> existence - preferably in Thakhet. There are enough rodents elsewhere,
>> thank you.
>>
>>
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