Of Rat and Tiny pygmy possum? I wonder how many new species have been discovered in our lifetime.
http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2007/12/scientists-find.html
That is one huge Rat!
I asked this in honor of Wally's (earlier) Rat Question...♥
2007-12-18 06:28:10 · 21 answers · asked by ♥ G ♥ 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Senior Citizens
I think I saw this species last night at walmart, in the towel isle.
2007-12-18 06:31:16 · answer #1 · answered by USAGUY 3 · 6⤊ 0⤋
I think the pygmy possum looks like Bob Newhart after a rough night. And I would guess none of these 'scientists' ever visited the wharfs and piers of Southeast Asia. Otherwise that rat would just be a rat. However, if you cross one with a fish you can get something that would gleefully clean all the trash from the oceans.
2007-12-18 08:48:30 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes!!!
I believe the Question should be How many Species Have been lost in Last 20 years!!!
People are Wiping out parts of this Planet before they even know What is their!!!
Look and What has been done in South American and Indonesia and Many Other Places!!!
Not just Animals But Plants both which may hold the Cure for Various Disease's!!!
But Most Can Not SEE that Everything is Connected!!!
What We do to ONE we Do to All!!!
Tell Me and I’ll Forget!
Show Me and I May Not Remember!
Involve Me and I’ll Understand!
2007-12-18 09:01:33 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
First off let me state that I HATE RATS!!!!
Yes, I saw it on another TV show. But having said that, Let me tell you that I was raised in San Francisco, and some of those sewer rats, can grow as big as a large cat or small dog. So it may be a new species, but it still might not compare to Large city sewer rats, by any means. If any of you have lived in a large city you know what I mean.
2007-12-19 06:22:15 · answer #4 · answered by Moe 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I saw it on the Today show yesterday. Possum's are pretty amazing animals. I live in the country surrounded by woods & i put food out for all tthe critters. My possum comes out after the Racoons leave. Like Isadora said they are not afraid of humans. They are still discovering all sorts of animal species, but I have to agree with Crazy Horse...how many have been lost.
2007-12-18 11:40:12 · answer #5 · answered by PJ ~88~ FAN 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
How cool!
Think how many species there may still be to be discovered in the Amazon and other isolated places in the world!! Exciting!
I think possums are kinda cute. One lives in my yard and it is not the least bit afraid of me, it sits on my deck steps sometimes and refuses to move, I have to step over it. That pygmy one is an awww. It's so cute!
2007-12-18 07:07:29 · answer #6 · answered by Isadora 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Good Wally will have it in a tutu and crossed with a hippo and a giraffe just to check it out. The pygmy will be running from an elf.
2007-12-18 08:57:55 · answer #7 · answered by lilabner 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-03 23:20:22 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It reminds me of a similar rat that was on display at the World's Fair, Expo '67 (Montreal, Canada), which weighed 97 (ninety-seven) pounds, and it was much bigger than the one in the recent photograph. That particular one was from somewhere in South America.
2007-12-18 06:37:02 · answer #9 · answered by SB 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I'll bet he chased the cat instead of the other way around. As to how many, probably lots. Several new bird specimens have been recently discovered on an island in Indonesia.
2007-12-18 06:32:24 · answer #10 · answered by Just Hazel 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
OOh I hate rats. When I was a kid there were big rats up in the hayloft and dad made us go up there with boards with nails in the end and we had to kill them and throw them out the door. Disgusting and a true story.
2007-12-18 10:29:13 · answer #11 · answered by Aloha_Ann 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋