... You damned breeder you.... aside from that, congrats! I wish you and your wife the best in all endeavors with your greatest shared creation. I hope your...
... I'd say 110 kilos ... maybe 160 kilos ... 130 kilos ... Unmph, no. the cyprus ciraf is an insular endemic. The congo ciraf is well, like a mixture of okapi...
... Just let me second that. ... Albert Prieto-Márquez's thesis is now out. It's freely available as a (huge!) pdf somewhere. That's what we should follow. As...
David Marjanovic
david.marjanovic@...
Mar 1, 2009 2:41 pm
21289
... Fuck the geographers, their arbitrary definitions, _and_ the horses they rode in on. We're doing _bio_geography in Spec. There is no such thing as Asia to...
David Marjanovic
david.marjanovic@...
Mar 1, 2009 2:47 pm
21290
... they ... thing as ... continent ... So, we would end up having the "realms" as in Dougal Dixon's mad book? Not bad, I'd love to mock him. Though I have no...
... Must be truly ancient, considering one is called a strek. ... Comparably little of the highlands truly gets below freezing with any regularity , so it...
... Thanks. I have a new spreadsheet I'm filling in as you, I, Carlos and other submit new and updated essays. ... I can live with them, I just have mixed...
... Makes much more sense. Why were they turned into cryptic something-elses? I smell Brian. ... It would be plausible, but they clearly crossed the polar...
... They actually are the generally accepted "ecozones" of the world, and what I use, along with biomes to informally keep track of species in Spec. ...
... Stupid me. <headdesk><headdesk><headdesk> Did I mention there are hadrosaur _eggs_ in Kakanaut in northeastern Siberia? <headdesk> So, yes, hadrosaurs in...
David Marjanovic
david.marjanovic@...
Mar 1, 2009 6:00 pm
21297
... We all do it sometimes. ... The big Euclasaurs would make for okay hadrosaurs. Their hands are totally, completely wrong, but no more so than the...
Are there living gharials on Spec? If there are, did they had marine forms as in HE? Because that my offer some problems to my essay on chorsitoderes, which...
I'm about halfway through my revision of the errotyrants. Here is what I'm leaning towards. 1. Cazadins will be the most basal surviving errotyrants, and be...
... Have you taken Tiina's essays on them into account? ... Different species for the steppe and the taiga of Eurasia? Seriously? ... How much sense does a...
David Marjanovic
david.marjanovic@...
Mar 4, 2009 12:02 pm
21302
... *Speothos* hunts in packs, as do Dholes in SE Asia....
... I am doing it as I go along. The strider, for example, is going to be turned into a pack hunter, because that's what Tiina wanted. I'm having a hard time...
... We don't know yet, or rather, it has not been decided. For that matter, The whole of Spec Crocodylia is rather hard to figure out right now, let alone the...
... Drop the mainland species and more to the point, how are the cazadins doing to deal with rather rocky insular terrain? Ah hell, I'm not going to push it,...
... I thought the rippers were actually wolf sized or such? ... hmm, maybe they ought to be halved in size. Either that, or they may be "large" but only 500 to...
... Oh fuck. (head really hurts.) David, Let God be in the machine _just_ this once....PLEASE! We can explain away south america's pachamacs thanks to ...
... Mainland species are just in a few marginal habitats in Europe - their terminal decline actually is pretty closely associated with the most recent series...
... Yes, rippers are wolf-sized. I think I'll make striders 50% larger than that, or maybe even a slice larger. Can't go too wild as they're cogeneric. ... ...
... It seems fine to me to keep the ABE, but make the big euclasaurs into hadrosaurs. All it means is *one* sizable species survived the ABE, which is always...
... I could try, since I have an account on DA and we both are registered at Speculative Evolution; but again, Nemo also tried to recruit him, and I'm unaware...
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