Friday, May 13, 2005

Rebellion and Rodents

BBC

Thousands of prisoners have been released in Uzbekistan during protest over the imprisonment of 23 men accused of being Islamic extremists. Just yesterday, the BBC had an article about how peaceful and orderly the protests were.

BBC, Again

Not just a new species, but a new family of rodents has been discovered in a Laos market. This is my favorite kind of animal discovery; biologists are estatic and the locals just shrug and continue eating.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Am I the only one who read "Dr Mark Robinson, working with WWF Thailand..." and wondered what a biologist was doing with the World Wrestling Federation? Probably, but now none of you will think of the World Wildlife Fund the same way again....panda wrestling... hehe.