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[gemfyre]

I'm amazed one of the questions wasn't "Can I ride a kangaroo?"


I am soooooooooo jealous of David Attenborough. Just watched the first installment of Life of Mammals. He's there in this lil' dinghy of a boat and about 3 metres away there's this bloody BLUE WHALE!!! coming to the surface for a breath. Amazing. Not to mention the great footage of the Yapok and Platypus.

Gives me ideas for research. The yapok is the only aquatic marsupial and it is able to close off it's pouch so the babies don't drown. But as David commented, they must be close to suffocation by the time mum leaves the water. I wish there were the resources to research that. Perhaps this animal possesses some way of still transferring oxygen to the young? Or the young are specially adapted to not need so much air, what is this adaptation? There is so much we don't know, and I want to find out and know it just for the sheer sake of knowing. Why must knowledge always have a reason?

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[sassamifrass.livejournal.com]

I know how you feel. But there are a lot of people out there doing just that. Mostly government work though,hard to get funding elswehere unless you can give a commercial excuse :/