• Messageboard • Allgemeines • H. Dallas Sort:     Author: Message: fenpxsli Pfeifenkopp 205 Posts registered: 26.10.2013 28.10.2013, 17:39   The Nature of the Beast based on Susan McCarthy Not so long ago there was a huge diving ocean goose wait, no, maybe a giant diving ocean duck so specialized for diving after fish it couldn fly. It was as large as a Canada goose anyway, a small Canada goose okay, probably as big as nine pounds. Could it have been tasty, too, because its bones are located abundantly in old kitchen middens on the California Channel Islands and across the coast. Although with everything diving it has to have been tough. Tough and fishy. (Plenty of tough fishy meat for the entire gang!) This extinct diver is called Chendytes lawii. (I saying chen DIE teez.) Here an image produced by Stanton F. Fink, who loves to portray extinct creatures. I wouldn have expected so that it is so blue, but who knows? (I also like Fink shastasaurs.) Chendytes only went extinct around 2,canada goose livigno parka review,5003,000 years back. We simply missed it. A Chendytes bone 10,000 years of age was found inside a cave on San Miguel Island. Perhaps a duckeating person left it there, or possibly it was another duckeating animal. Yeah, yeah, or possibly it tottered inside to be alone. Chendytes is material for arguments about humancaused extinction. This charming big duck (let's suppose you had been hungry which enormous creature put their hands up to the water surface within easy clubbing distance you be totally charmed) became extinct before the arrival of Europeans, so we can blame socalled Western civilization. (Actually, I bet netting was a much more likely technique than clubbing, but clubbing sounds cartoonier.) It generally believed that an earlier Western civilization, that of the coastal Indians of California, drove or helped drive Chendytes to extinction. Climate changes may have contributed. But there is debate about whether it can be viewed as a late, outlying part of a hypothesized Pleistocene Overkill in The united states, or if its demise is really evidence against an overkill "blitzkrieg." Here the offer. A lot of large United states mammals went extinct right about the time humans (in the Clovis culture) showed up, about 11,00013,000 years ago. Mammoths,parajumpers jakke oslo, mastodons, ground sloths, 8foot long beavers, the stagmoose, a sizable camel there should have been thundering herds everywhere you turned. The classic and often repeated example of the is the buffalo jump, in which a big herd of buffalo is chased off a cliff. (It doesn seem like it very easy to stage a buffalo jump, however i admit Irrrve never tried.) There fierce debate relating to this. Many people would include Chendytes to illustrate big animals destroyed. (See Tim Flannery, .) Others cite Chendytes as a counterexample the species coexisted with individuals for centuries before it went extinct. Some state that because they were relatively safe on the islands. But Jones, et al. (T. L. Jones, J. F. Porcasi, J. M. Erlandson, H. Dallas, Jr., T. A. Wake, and R. Schwaderer) say that people appear to have experienced the Channel Islands for around 11,500 years, therefore it took 8,000 several years to eat the last Chendytes. In "The protracted Holocene extinction of California's flightless sea duck (Chendytes lawi) and it is implications for that Pleistocene overkill hypothesis" Jones et al. argue that if it took such a long time for humans to hunt out Chendytes, it ought to have taken them a comparable time to eliminate other species. So maybe it had been something else that became of the megafauna. Opinions differ on when Native Californians had boats that enabled them to arrive at the nesting islands that were probably Chendytes last stronghold,doudoune canada goose pas cher. (I say: right away. People always result in happen to be boating longer than we thought.) Thus some say we coexisted with Chendytes for millennia. Others say we wiped Chendytes out practically the minute we got the seafaring equipment to leave towards the nesting places and gorge ourselves (on tough fishy meat),www.newcastlesc.ca/?paged=3. Occasionally I believe in regards to a Pleistocene Revival event, where a little DNA cutandpaste work will bring back cool megafauna. I love to see mastodons and mammoths and those giant beavers. (Did they create huge dams?) But if you didn bring back giant predators the enormous herbivores would multiply crazily. I not ready for dire wolves and sabertoothed cats. I not really sure how we would manage using the herbivores. Mastodons in the arboretum would not be popular. If you don like gophers in your garden, you gonna hate ground sloths. People skipping towards the fruit are a symbol of the start of cherry season could be upset to learn that giant camels had beaten them to it. I believed that Chendytes may be simpler to be friends with. Let's say we're able to recreate them and allow them to hang out around the Channel Islands again? With our effete modern eating habits, most of us would readily agree not to eat those tough fishy types. Huge diving ducks! What is bad? fenpxsli Pfeifenkopp 205 Posts registered: 26.10.2013 29.10.2013, 02:21   Seven small greenhouse ideas Provided byIt is so tempting to purchase one of Ikea new SOCKER mini greenhouses. They the best size for apartments, and very cute. 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