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[Morreh]

vitruvian12, on 01 March 2012 - 03:01 AM, said:

Wait till you hear about his glow birds

I've heard a little bit, something about glowing because of urine..

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Morreh, on 01 March 2012 - 03:05 AM, said:

I've heard a little bit, something about glowing because of urine..

Phosphorus.  He has quite detailed info about their biology and habits.

[Morreh]

vitruvian12, on 01 March 2012 - 03:08 AM, said:

Phosphorus.  He has quite detailed info about their biology and habits.

Wow, lol. I wonder when his book is coming out.

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Saru, on 29 February 2012 - 03:51 PM, said:

How can one unconfirmed species be identified as another unconfirmed species ?

Not only that but the Orang Pendek is supposed to be a small bipedal ape-like creature, not a giant dog.

I'm assuming that an animal can mimick others as an effective survival strategy. The Orang Pendek is something which *likes* to be recognised as an orangutan-like animal, but is in fact something entirely different. Hence it can stay undetected and undisturbed. It's just a hypothesis which seems to fit the evidence imv.

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Morreh, on 01 March 2012 - 12:00 AM, said:

I'm curious, Tailor, how did you first come across Hyraxes? (I'm not sure what their plural is..)

It was when I looked at the photos of the 'Dartmoor beast' featured in a great article in Fortean Times magazine. I started a thread called 'Dartmoor Beast Identified As a New Species Of Giant Hyrax?'. Google and you'll see.

[Saru]

tailormaneinafog, on 01 March 2012 - 01:05 PM, said:

I'm assuming that an animal can mimick others as an effective survival strategy. The Orang Pendek is something which *likes* to be recognised as an orangutan-like animal, but is in fact something entirely different. Hence it can stay undetected and undisturbed. It's just a hypothesis which seems to fit the evidence imv.

That answer makes absolutely no sense whatsoever, there's nowhere to even begin rebuking it - it's ridiculous.

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Saru, on 01 March 2012 - 01:41 PM, said:

That answer makes absolutely no sense whatsoever, there's nowhere to even begin rebuking it - it's ridiculous.

Perhaps we can leave it at then and wait for the latest analysis from Extreme Expeditions which is due in a few months. Your Einstein quote says it all imo. Reality is always stranger than fiction.

[vitruvian12]

tailormaneinafog, on 01 March 2012 - 02:30 PM, said:

Perhaps we can leave it at then and wait for the latest analysis from Extreme Expeditions which is due in a few months. Your Einstein quote says it all imo. Reality is always stranger than fiction.

Reality is not always stranger than fiction, but when it is that still doesnt mean someone made it up out of thin air.  What are we waiting for from the expedition?  Something other than the hair?

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vitruvian12, on 01 March 2012 - 02:48 PM, said:

Reality is not always stranger than fiction, but when it is that still doesnt mean someone made it up out of thin air.  What are we waiting for from the expedition?  Something other than the hair?

DNA analysis from four independent research labs I believe, from samples taken from more recent expeditions.

Edited by tailormaneinafog, 01 March 2012 - 03:15 PM.

[Morreh]

tailormaneinafog, on 01 March 2012 - 01:09 PM, said:

It was when I looked at the photos of the 'Dartmoor beast' featured in a great article in Fortean Times magazine. I started a thread called 'Dartmoor Beast Identified As a New Species Of Giant Hyrax?'. Google and you'll see.

You mean this article where an owner of a Newfoundland dog thinks that the photos were of the dog?
It doesn't say "Hyrax" once on the page..

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Morreh, on 01 March 2012 - 10:00 PM, said:

You mean this article where an owner of a Newfoundland dog thinks that the photos were of the dog?
It doesn't say "Hyrax" once on the page..

..yawn...I'm sorry but I've been through this discussion before a long time ago. I've spoken to the man who took the photograph who's a professional with birds of prey and lives and works in Dartmoor. He has dogs himself. It definitely *wasn't* a dog he said. It didn't move like one. It was more feline-like in motion.

P.S. There's a mention of the Orang Pendek in this month's issue of Focus magazine.

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tailormaneinafog, on 02 March 2012 - 11:34 AM, said:

..yawn...I'm sorry but I've been through this discussion before a long time ago. I've spoken to the man who took the photograph who's a professional with birds of prey and lives and works in Dartmoor. He has dogs himself. It definitely *wasn't* a dog he said. It didn't move like one. It was more feline-like in motion.

P.S. There's a mention of the Orang Pendek in this month's issue of Focus magazine.

You've really spoken to him? Has it occurred to you that he may have skirted over the truth to give his photographs more notoriety & hype?

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Morreh, on 02 March 2012 - 12:04 PM, said:

You've really spoken to him? Has it occurred to you that he may have skirted over the truth to give his photographs more notoriety & hype?

He's not interested in being called a 'fake' etc. Why would someone with a professional career with birds of prey put his reputation in jeopardy if not totally genuine? That's the kind of thing unemployed people do, surely?

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tailormaneinafog, on 02 March 2012 - 12:11 PM, said:

He's not interested in being called a 'fake' etc. Why would someone with a professional career with birds of prey put his reputation in jeopardy if not totally genuine? That's the kind of thing unemployed people do, surely?

So only unemployed people lie and people with jobs tell the truth?  What a truly remarkable and simple world you live in.

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vitruvian12, on 02 March 2012 - 02:22 PM, said:

So only unemployed people lie and people with jobs tell the truth?  What a truly remarkable and simple world you live in.

So what line of work are you in v'?