Scientists Find New Species In Remote New Guinea

An anonymous reader writes "A team of scientists exploring an isolated jungle in one of Indonesia's most remote provinces said they discovered dozens of new species of frogs, butterflies and plants as well as large mammals hunted to near extinction elsewhere. The team also found wildlife that were remarkably unafraid of humans during their rapid assessment survey of the Foja Mountains, which has more than two million acres of old growth tropical forest."

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So tell us.

[falzer]

How do they taste?

Uh-oh

[Council]

the team also found wildlife that were remarkably unafraid of humans

That's what happens whenever you find animals that haven't encountered humans before. Thing is, the after the first few encounters they'll sort themselves into two groups.

One group is the ones who learn to be afraid of us. The other, well . . .

Re:Uh-oh

[B3ryllium]

We call that other group "tasty".

wood logging companies

[jurt1235]

Sarcasm on

They could only reach the remote mountainous area by helicopter, which they described it as akin to finding a "Garden of Eden".

Wood logging companies & local farmers have been found willing to provide easier access to the area, as a local farmer said:
I will burn down 5 hectares a month to create new places for my crops. That way tourist will be able to get closer to these pretty animals everyday without having to endanger them (the editor: By them he meant the tourist, because everybody knows that road travel in Indonesia is the safest way to travel) by helicopter.

A loggin company responded too:
2 million years without forest maintenance is not good for tourism. We are willing to trim the trees for easier access.

Sarcasm off

Re:They found them !!!

[User 956]

So anyone taking bets on how long it will take before these 'hunted to near extinction' mammals will really be extinct?

That depends. Can you make fancy shoes out of them?

Learning the Birds n' Bees

[malia8888]

Dr Beehler, an expert on birds of paradise, which only live in northern Australia and New Guinea, said: "It was very exciting, when two of these birds, a male and a female, which no one has seen alive before ... came into the camp and the male displayed its plumage to the female in full view of the scientists."

Which is the closest thing to a sex life these scientists have ever had in their bespectacled, nerdy lives. ... Bespectacled? nerdy? I must be projecting heavily here.

Common sense area unit

[Life700MB]

For the ignorants out there, an area of two million acres is equivalente to a 1,264M Volkwagens one.

No, really.


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