| What do you like about this subject? I like the fact that there is always new material being discovered and that scientists are becoming more adventurous in the species which they are studying. There are also more books and television programmes about unuaul animals. | | What do you still hope to achieve/learn in this field? I want to write a mammal book, including species neglected by mainstream books. I would like to see living mammals belonging to orders which have eluded me - flying lemurs (sometimes included in primates), marsupial moles, colocolos, rat opossums and golden moles (which may be more closely related to elephants than moles.) | | Something interesting about this subject that others may not know: Most mammals are much smaller than humans. People seem to be more attracted to large mammals, rather than small mammals. Over 30% of mammals are rodents and about 20% are bats. There are also many small species of primates, marsupials and insectivores. | | Something controversial or provocative about this subject Scientists considered that humans were created separately from all other animals. Linnaeus included humans in a distinct order, Bimana, due to having two hands. Recently, great apes have been placed in the same family as humans, namely the Hominidae. |
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I appreciate your quick and clear response. We will leave them alone and just continue to watch them 'til they leave the nest. They're really growin
(John on 08/02/08) | Thanks Jonathan, we wondered if it was a muskrat but the coypu sounds more like it, being bigger. Will pass this on to the Americans we were staying
(Linda on 07/28/08) | Thank you for the speedy reply.
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