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Mon 07 Feb 2005

Dolphin video

Category : Singapore Naturalist

Well, someone finally got some footage of dolphins in Singapore waters, and no less from an Italian "tourist", sorry, scientist, in Singapore. He had a camera handy when the pod surfaced - see Habitatnews.

Also, Ernst Mayr dies, and that grand old man had to have a footnote. Pharyngula has more.

Via my technocrati rss alert for the word "mangrove", I stumbled onto this morsel at the Guiness Book of World Records: Most Deaths Caused By Crocodiles - 19 Feb 1045: 'An Imperial Japanese Army unit guarding a stronghold on the Burmese island of Ramree was outflanked by a British naval force. Forced to cross 16 km of mangrove swamps, the swamps were home to thousands of large saltwater crocodiles.

Only 20 of the 1,000 Japanese soldiers survived.'

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