April 25, 2005

Biodiversity of the Borneo Rainforest

The Nature Conservancy has some more information, and National Geographic provides the Borneo rainforest at night [flash]. Perhaps these forest-dwellers will be preserved only on Arkive - the initiative to gather together "films, photographs and audio recordings of the world’s species" (via pleggers). Want to go to Borneo? Perhaps e-borneo blogspot can help. ps - your Monkey needs a nosejob, d00d.

posted by the quidnunc kid 19 years ago
  • Not at all - a schnozz of heroic proportions: a Cyranoic, a Shandean proboscis. May hosts of lesser monkeys gather gratefully in its shade...
  • The rainforest at night link was fun, thanks! The proboscis monkey always kinda creeped me out. Noses shouldn't be that big. Something's not right there.
  • Aggressive: "Sir, if I had such a nose, I'd cut it off, so much 'twould cut me up." Friendly: "It oft must plunge, sir, in your cup;-- Best make a goblet of a special shape." Descriptive: " 'Tis a rock, --a cliff, --a cape. A cape, quotha? Surely a promontory." Curious: "What is that thing, --let's have the story,-- A tool box, or, perhaps, a writing case?" Gracious: "You must love birds to have a place Paternally prepared, --I call it sweet,-- To make a safe perch for their tiny feet." Truculent: "Sir, be careful when you smoke, Lest you make trouble for all honest folk,-- Lest neighbors run and cry, 'A chimney fire!'" Careful: "Pray hold your head a little higher, Else such a weight will surely make you fall." Solicitous: "Sir, take a parasol, Lest its bright hue be faded by the sun." Pedantic: "Aristophanes knew one,-- Hippocampelephantecamelos Was made to carry, certes, such a nose." Lightly: "Why, friend, a most commodious rack To hang one's hat,--where space will never lack." Emphatic: "Fierce Euroclydon, behold, Needs all his power to give that nose a cold." Dramatic: " 'Tis the Red Sea when it bleeds." Admiring: " 'Tis the sign the chemist needs." Lyric: "A conche and you a triton, say?" Simple: "A monument. When's visiting day?" Respectful: "Come, the landed gentry greet. Here's one who has a gable on the street." Rustic: "Why look-a-here. A nose? I tell 'un 'Tis a prize turnip, --or a stunted melon." Soldierly: "Charge, heavy artillery." Practical: "Put it in the lottery. Assuredly 'twould be, sir, the Grand Prize."
  • Standing ovation!!!
  • <3s Rostand.
  • Beauty.