Naturalisme

Envoyé par : VB (Adresse IP journalisée)

Date : Wed 16 June 2004 17:01:58

Notamment d'ouistitis, de titis et d'autres espèces animales...

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Envoyé par : VB (Adresse IP journalisée)

Date : Wed 16 June 2004 17:45:53

Aurais-tu les références du site où tu as trouvé ces informations?
Merci.
VB

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Envoyé par : jean-luc saint-marc (Adresse IP journalisée)

Date : Thu 17 June 2004 03:00:11

AFP !!!

jl

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Envoyé par : François (Adresse IP journalisée)

Date : Thu 17 June 2004 07:15:07

Bonjour
Selon une info relatée par la presse allemande, l'spèce n'a pas été observée vivante. L'animal aurait été identifié alors qu'il était servi lors d'un repas.
Les découvertes scientifiques empruntent parfois des chemins inattendus.
Cordialement

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Envoyé par : FENEROLE (Adresse IP journalisée)

Date : Fri 16 July 2004 08:20:53

Comme il n'y a pas de suidé autochtone en Amérique, il doit en fait s'agir d'un pécari...

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Envoyé par : VB (Adresse IP journalisée)

Date : Fri 16 July 2004 12:54:02

Mais il faut savoir que les pécaris sont souvent appelés cochons sauvages là-bas et bien que tayassuidés, ils font tout de même partie du même ordre: suiformes...
D'autres exemples de chemins innatendus:
l'okapi, grâce à un bout de peau.
Le sao-là (antilope asiatique), gràce à 2 cornes, restes d'un repas.
un papillon de nuit malgache à très longue trompe: existence au début supposé par la structure de la fleur de la vanille sauvage.
l'existence d'un chat sauvage d'asie a été découverte grâce à ses fèces.
Et il y en a bien d'autres...

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Envoyé par : Froggy (Adresse IP journalisée)

Date : Fri 16 July 2004 15:49:07

Désolé mais je n'ai plus la source de l'info


New mammal discovered in South America - and eaten

HAMBURG, June 12: A new species of mammal has been discovered in South America but was promptly converted into roast pork and eaten by Brazilian villagers, the German natural-science cinematographer Lothar Frenz said yesterday.

The animal was the fourth known species of Peccary, a piglike mammal found between the southern deserts of the United States and Patagonia. Resembling a wild pig, the Peccary has dark, coarse hair and a large head with a circular snout and small ears.

News of the discovery of the giant Peccary was held back till shortly before the airing next Wednesday in Germany of the latest documentary by Frenz, who accompanied a Dutch naturalist, Marc Van Roosmalen, on an expedition to the Amazon region of Rio Aripuana.

The most common species are the white-lipped peccary (Tayassu Pecari) and the Collared Peccary (Pecari Tajacu). A third sort, the Gran Chaco Peccary, was discovered in Argentina in 1974.

Frenz said, the new species' behaviour and colouring were different, along with its size whic is 40 kilogrammes and 1.30 metres long.

A report appeared today in the newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung quoting Frenz that he saw the first discovered giant Peccary struggling valiantly before villagers killed it, flayed it and roasted it on a spit.

Frenz said he and Van Roosmalen abstained from trying the meat, but collected some of the remains for a genetic study. (DPA)

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Envoyé par : VB (Adresse IP journalisée)

Date : Fri 16 July 2004 19:39:37

Voilà ce qu'on peut lire sur: [www.amazonia.org.br]

New animal discovered in Amazonia - 06/12/2004
Locality: Rio de Janeiro - RJ
Source: Jornal do Brasil
Link: [jbonline.terra.com.br]


The Dutch scientist, Marc van Roosmalen, discovered in the area of the Aripuana River in Amazonia a new mammal species, named the gigantic jungle pig, reported Lothar Frenz, a documentalist who made a film about the theme for German TV.  The animal discovered appears like a boar, but it has less fat, no goatee nor a ring of white hairs around its neck.  Also, it does not have the distasteful smell of the boar.

In the documentary, Frenz presents the Dutch scientist who lives in Manaus, as a committed environmental researcher and whose work has been impeded by the Brazilian authorities.  In April 2003, Rossmalen was accused by the Ministry of Technology and Science of bio-piracy and several months later had to pay R$ 5 thousand for being found with four monkeys.   He worked in the National Amazonia Research Institute (INPA) since 1996.  Roosmalen became a Brazilian citizen in 1998 to facilitate his work.  It is necessary to have an IBAMA license, but being a foreigner makes it more difficult.  He stated that the paranoia that foreigners are stealing Brazil’s riches does not exist in Peru, Venezuela or Colombia.  Marcus Barros, the director of INPA, defended the scientist in 2002 and stated that all species that he collected were deposited in the Institute.

 

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Envoyé par : VB (Adresse IP journalisée)

Date : Fri 16 July 2004 19:40:25

Et ce n'est pas tout:

Amazonia has two new monkey species - 06/23/2002
Locality: São Paulo - SP
Source: Agência Estado
Link: [www.estadao.com.br]


With these two new discoveries, Brazil now has 95 primate species and is the country with the most primate biodiversity in the world

Campinas - Two new species of monkey have been found in Brazilian Amazonia by the primatologists as Marc van Roosmalen, from the National Institute of Amazonian Research, his son Tomas van Roosmalen and Russell Mittermeier, president of  Conservation International (CI) and the International Union for Nature Conservation. The news was announced today in Washington.

"Primates have been well-studied in the last four decades as they are our closest relatives, but we are still surprised by the discovery of these species", Mittermeier declared. "This proves that we still need to learn a
lot about biological diversity, particularly in tropical forests."

The two species are from the sauá monkey family. They live high in the forest canopy, weigh around 1 to 1.5 kilogrammes and have a long tail, which is not prensile. One of the new species lives in the region between the Madeira river and the lower Aripuaña river. It has been baptised Callicebus bernhardi, in honour of Dutch Prince Bernhard, who has created the Order of the Golden Arc, an international prize to foster the conservation of biodiversity.

The other species was named Callicebus stephennashi, in honour of the scientific illustrator Stephen Nash of New York State University. Nash works for Conservation International and has contributed much to primate
conservation.

Conservation priorities

The discovery of two new mammal species is considered to be an extraordinary achievement. Due to the size of Amazonia, it is likely that there are still many species to be discovered and many gaps in scientists' knowledge to be filled. New discoveries help to define conservation priorities in the face of the accelerated rhythm of the destruction of the forests. Since 1990, 24 new species of monkey have been discovered, 13 of them in Brazil.

"I am using my new discoveries to encourage the Brazilian government to create protected areas, " said Marc van Roosmalen. "Amazonia is extremely rich in biodiversity and these recently-discovered creatures should be considered as flag species."

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