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Best friends, Surya the orangutan and Roscoe the Blue Tick hound dog.
The orangutan was out for his daily elephant ride when he spotted “a worn-out old hound dog.” They ran right toward each other and hugged like long lost best friends.
Dr Bhagavan Antle, founder of The Institute of Greatly Endangered and Rare Species (TIGERS), said:
“Roscoe looked really thin and a little lost, so we fed him and took
care of him. He followed us through the gate and ran over and found
Suryia. As soon as he saw Roscoe, Suryia ran over to him and they
started playing. It was unusual because dogs are usually scared of
primates but they took to each other straight away. We made a few calls
to see if he belonged to anyone and when no-one came forward, Roscoe
ended up staying.
“They will spend a few hours each day
together rolling around, swimming,’”said Dr Antle. “Suryia will take
Roscoe for walks around the enclosure and even feeds him some of his
monkey biscuits. When they are both feeling a little lazy they will go
for a ride on the back of Bubbles, our 27-year-old African elephant.”
Article and more photos of Surya and Roscoe: http://www.thriveinlife.ca/
video: https://www.youtube.com/
The orangutan was out for his daily elephant ride when he spotted “a worn-out old hound dog.” They ran right toward each other and hugged like long lost best friends.
Dr Bhagavan Antle, founder of The Institute of Greatly Endangered and Rare Species (TIGERS), said:
“Roscoe looked really thin and a little lost, so we fed him and took care of him. He followed us through the gate and ran over and found Suryia. As soon as he saw Roscoe, Suryia ran over to him and they started playing. It was unusual because dogs are usually scared of primates but they took to each other straight away. We made a few calls to see if he belonged to anyone and when no-one came forward, Roscoe ended up staying.
“They will spend a few hours each day together rolling around, swimming,’”said Dr Antle. “Suryia will take Roscoe for walks around the enclosure and even feeds him some of his monkey biscuits. When they are both feeling a little lazy they will go for a ride on the back of Bubbles, our 27-year-old African elephant.”
Article and more photos of Surya and Roscoe: http://www.thriveinlife.ca/
video: https://www.youtube.com/
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Debate over whether human activity causes Earth climate change obscures the immensity of the dynamic systems that create and maintain climate on the planet. Anthropocentric debate leads people to believe that they can alter these planetary dynamic systems to prevent what they perceive as negative climate impacts on human civilization.
http://www.skepticalscience.com/global-warming-scientific-consensus.htm
.the debate on the authenticity of global warming and the role played by human activity is largely nonexistent among those who understand the nuances and scientific basis of long-term climate processes”. (Doran 2009). In other words, more than ***95% of scientists working in the disciplines contributing to studies of our climate****, accept that climate change is almost certainly being caused by human activities ( In other words - those who have professional activities in studies which are funded ) Yet in Comments
roverdc at 17:32 PM on 27 September, 2007
Concensus only has meaning if there is no pressure to conform in either direction. In the climate debate this is extremely far from being true. How far could we reasonably expect a questioner to go in an IPCC panel when that instantly collects a denialist label and probably guarantees a dead end to even the most able career? In the current climate it is reasonable to assume the dissent camp is at least ten times the admitted size. I know that as an admittedly uninformed questioner I get some pretty vitriolic responses from the eco faithful.
Wondering Aloud at 06:54 AM on 10 November, 2007
Roverdc hits the nail on the head. To say there is bias in the science at this point is a wild understatement. What the public hears is claims that "all scientists except a few kooks agree that catastrophic global warming is immenent and caused by your car.". This is what they think you mean by consensus.
Consensus is not science but if it was the supposed 2500 scientists of the IPCC report have every failing you mention of the petition project and more important the people who signed the petition agreed with what it said. The same can not be said for the IPCC and its supposed 2500. Counted in that IPCC number are hundreds of non scientists, NGO reps (these are people with an agenda)and most importantly reviewers, many of whom don't even agree with the conclusions of the IPCC report. In fact most of the famous "deniers" are included in the 2500 IPCC counts.
Someone made the mistake of asking them after the second IPCC report (surveyed participants) and found that over 60% did not agree with the summary for policy makers.
Maybe we should stop pretending numbers and NGOs are scientists and that consensus is science. It's that claim that raises huge red flags for me.
.....Pretty much. Appeal to Authority is not scientific proof such as one would expect when discussing anything that conformed to scientific method and its need for contrasting ideas, but is rather a political debater's trick. Predicting the future, in fact, as a scientific exercise usually results in ribald hilarity and guffaws at credulity.
And someone who puts their trust in a culturally appropriate crystal ball is no one to talk about tinfoil hats.
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