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HalfMooner
Dingaling
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In Vietnam, scientists can can do their field work in restaurants.
(CNN) -- It may be an old menu standby to Vietnamese diners, but it's turned into a smorgasbord of discovery for scientists.
Researchers have identified a previously undocumented species of all-female lizard in the Mekong River delta that can reproduce itself by cloning, and the story of how it was discovered is almost as exotic as the animal itself.
Leiolepis ngovantrii is a small lizard found only in southern Vietnam. A Vietnamese reptile scientist who came across tanks full of the remarkably similar looking reptiles at small diners in rural villages in Ba Ria-Vung Tau province became intrigued when he noticed that all of the lizards appeared to be female.
So the scientist, Ngo Van Tri of the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, contacted an American colleague about what he was seeing. His friend -- a herpetologist at La Sierra University in Riverside, California -- immediately dropped everything to come out to assess the find.
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Edited by - HalfMooner on 11/10/2010 23:41:12
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
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Posted - 11/11/2010 : 00:04:29 [Permalink]
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| But were they tasty? (I stole this and posted it on facebook.) |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 11/11/2010 : 04:50:58 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Kil
But were they tasty? (I stole this and posted it on facebook.)
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The scientists didn't seem to comment on that, unfortunately.
In Asia, anything with legs can wok. |
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
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Posted - 11/11/2010 : 10:10:02 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by HalfMooner
Originally posted by Kil
But were they tasty? (I stole this and posted it on facebook.)
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The scientists didn't seem to comment on that, unfortunately.
In Asia, anything with legs can wok.
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Ha! But really, that's true. Hell, the chinese have figured out how to make soup out of bird snot. Not that I wouldn't like to try some of these foods. But who made it first? Who got the bright idea that a birds nest made of snot would be Good Eats?
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Why not question something for a change?
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Baxter
Skeptic Friend
USA
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Posted - 11/11/2010 : 12:25:03 [Permalink]
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| Yeah, Kil, that is the one food that grosses me out more than anything else. I saw it on Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmerman. However, I think it's actually saliva, not snot. At any rate, eating a slimy bowl of spit is about as bad as it gets. |
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
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Posted - 11/11/2010 : 13:09:18 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Baxter
At any rate, eating a slimy bowl of spit is about as bad as it gets.
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Not quite, but that's another story. |
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
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Posted - 11/11/2010 : 13:39:31 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Baxter
At any rate, eating a slimy bowl of spit is about as bad as it gets. |
So long as you want to avoid Rule 34, yes. |
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Ebone4rock
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 11/11/2010 : 14:41:06 [Permalink]
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| Eh,looks like way too much work for too little food. Kind of like eating sunflover seeds. Don't know why people waste the time and energy. |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 11/11/2010 : 19:29:48 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Kil
Originally posted by HalfMooner
Originally posted by Kil
But were they tasty? (I stole this and posted it on facebook.)
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The scientists didn't seem to comment on that, unfortunately.
In Asia, anything with legs can wok.
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Ha! But really, that's true. Hell, the chinese have figured out how to make soup out of bird snot. Not that I wouldn't like to try some of these foods. But who made it first? Who got the bright idea that a birds nest made of snot would be Good Eats?
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Ah, bird's nest soup. I first saw a nature documentary on them on TV, roughly 60 years ago. Igorots collect these nests here in Northern Luzon, presumably for export to Hong Kong.
From my balcony here in Baguio, I've seen the local Black-nest Swiftlets snatching flying insects. These pretty little swifts can echolocate, by the way. I haven't yet ventured into their caves, nor have I ever eaten bird's nest soup. I've seen the item on menus in San Francisco's Chinatown, but it was extremely expensive. I haven't seen it on a menu in Baguio yet. I would not turn it down, were it offered me, at least for a taste. |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 11/11/2010 : 19:47:22 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dr. Mabuse
Originally posted by Baxter
At any rate, eating a slimy bowl of spit is about as bad as it gets.
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Not quite, but that's another story.
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Blackadder was a fortunate man, in that Baldrick could find wholesome mud, dandruff, and saliva to make a cuppa Java. Here, they have coffee that comes out of the anus of a civet.
Wiki quotes a coffee critic:| Coffee critic Chris Rubin has said, "The aroma is rich and strong, and the coffee is incredibly full bodied, almost syrupy. It’s thick with a hint of chocolate, and lingers on the tongue with a long, clean aftertaste." |
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Baxter
Skeptic Friend
USA
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Posted - 11/12/2010 : 07:48:35 [Permalink]
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| It's a sick, sick world. |
"We tend to scoff at the beliefs of the ancients. But we can't scoff at them personally, to their faces, and this is what annoys me." ~from Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey
"We can be as honest as we are ignorant. If we are, when asked what is beyond the horizon of the known, we must say that we do not know." ~Robert G. Ingersoll
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Randy
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 11/12/2010 : 18:07:19 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by HalfMooner
Originally posted by Dr. Mabuse
Originally posted by Baxter
At any rate, eating a slimy bowl of spit is about as bad as it gets.
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Not quite, but that's another story.
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Blackadder was a fortunate man, in that Baldrick could find wholesome mud, dandruff, and saliva to make a cuppa Java. Here, they have coffee that comes out of the anus of a civet.
Wiki quotes a coffee critic:| Coffee critic Chris Rubin has said, "The aroma is rich and strong, and the coffee is incredibly full bodied, almost syrupy. It’s thick with a hint of chocolate, and lingers on the tongue with a long, clean aftertaste." |
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Here's one lizard's take on that. |
"We are all connected; to each other biologically, to the earth chemically, to the rest of the universe atomically."
"So you're made of detritus [from exploded stars]. Get over it. Or better yet, celebrate it. After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?"
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Scientists discover lizard species at lunch
